8-letter words containing d, t, h
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- holdouts — Plural form of holdout.
- holytide — a time of religious observances.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- hood rat — a young promiscuous woman from an impoverished urban area
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotblood — a collective term for Arabian, Barb, and Thoroughbred horses
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- humidity — humid condition; moistness; dampness.
- hundreth — Eye dialect of hundredth.
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydranth — the terminal part of a hydroid polyp that bears the mouth and tentacles and contains the stomach region.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.
- hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
- hydrates — Plural form of hydrate.
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- in depth — extensive, thorough, or profound: an in-depth analysis of the problem.
- in dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- in-depth — extensive, thorough, or profound: an in-depth analysis of the problem.
- itchweed — a hellebore, Veratrum album, that is native to Europe
- jihadist — a jihadi.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- judahite — a member of the tribe of Judah or of the kingdom of Judah.
- katahdin — Mount, the highest peak in Maine, in the central part. 5273 feet (1607 meters).
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- kvetched — Simple past tense and past participle of kvetch.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- lathered — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- masthead — Also called flag. a statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
- mathilde — a female given name, French or German form of Matilda.
- meathead — blockhead; dunce; fool.
- meddleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of meddle.
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- methadon — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- midmonth — the middle of the month
- midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- misdight — to mismanage or treat badly
- mithered — Simple past tense and past participle of mither.