8-letter words containing e, o, t, h
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- photogen — a light oil obtained by the distillation of bituminous shale, coal, or peat: once commercially produced chiefly as an illuminant and as a solvent.
- photoset — photocompose.
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- pochette — kit2 .
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- regolith — mantle rock.
- regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- rehoboth — a town in central Israel, SE of Tel Aviv.
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheotome — an interrupter of an electric current
- rheotron — (formerly) betatron.
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- scotched — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- selihoth — (used with a plural verb) liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast days.
- set shot — a shot with two hands from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player stands still and shoots the ball usually from chest level.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.