8-letter words containing h, o, m, t
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- highmost — highest
- himation — a garment consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth thrown over the left shoulder and wrapped about the body.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hoastman — a member of a former guild of tradesmen responsible for loading and shipping coal in Newcastle upon Tyne
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- homefelt — (of an emotion) felt personally or intimately; private; inward
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- hometime — The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- homilist — a person who writes or delivers homilies.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- homotope — (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
- homotopy — the relation that exists between two mappings in a topological space if one mapping can be deformed in a continuous way to make it coincide with the other.
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hot comb — a comblike device that is heated, usually electrically, and used to straighten or style the hair
- hot mess — a person or thing that is a mess, as in being disorganized, confused, or untidy, yet remains attractive or appealing: He’s a hot mess when he wakes up in the morning!
- hot-comb — to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hum tone — a note produced by a bell when struck, lying an octave or (in many English bells) a sixth or seventh below the strike tone
- 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.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- mailshot — Bulk advertising sent through the post/mail.
- mammoths — Plural form of mammoth.
- mansholt — Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community
- marathon — a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- math-out — (Possibly from "white-out", the blizzard variety) A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible. This may be a device for concealing the fact that it is actually content-free. See also numbers, social science number.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- 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.
- methanol — methyl alcohol.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- mezuzoth — Plural form of mezuzah.
- midmonth — the middle of the month
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mitzvoth — any of the collection of 613 commandments or precepts in the Bible and additional ones of rabbinic origin that relate chiefly to the religious and moral conduct of Jews.