7-letter words containing h, o, t, e
- exmouth — a town in SW England, in Devon, at the mouth of the River Exe: tourism, fishing. Pop: 32 972 (2001)
- eyeshot — The distance for which one can see.
- floweth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flow.
- frothed — Simple past tense and past participle of froth.
- frother — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- get hot — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- ghettos — a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- ghosted — Simple past tense and past participle of ghost.
- haroset — a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by Israelite slaves in Egypt.
- have to — be obliged to
- he-goat — a male goat
- hectors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hector.
- helmont — Jan Baptista van [yahn bahp tis-tah-vahn] /yɑn bɑp ˈtɪs tɑ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1579–1644, Flemish chemist and physician.
- helotry — serfdom; slavery.
- hemato- — blood
- henotic — serving to reconcile; promoting peace
- hentoff — Nat(han Irving) born 1925, U.S. writer and critic.
- hepato- — denoting the liver
- heptode — a vacuum tube containing seven electrodes, usually a plate, a cathode, a control electrode, and four grids.
- heptose — any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- hereout — (obsolete) Out of this.
- heritor — inheritor.
- herriot — Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1872–1957, French statesman, political leader, and author.
- hertzog — James Barry Munnik [mœn-uh k] /ˈmœn ək/ (Show IPA). South African statesman and general: prime minister 1924–39.
- hetero- — other, another, or different
- heteros — Chemistry. of or relating to an atom other than carbon, particularly in a cyclic compound.
- hideout — a safe place for hiding, especially from the law.
- histone — any of a group of five small basic proteins, occurring in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, that organize DNA strands into nucleosomes by forming molecular complexes around which the DNA winds.
- hoaxter — Alternative spelling of hoaxer.
- hockett — Charles, 1916–2000, U.S. linguist and anthropologist.
- hog-tie — If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
- hogcote — A shed for pigs; a sty.
- hoglets — Plural form of hoglet.
- hogtied — Simple past tense and past participle of hogtie.
- hoisted — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- hoister — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- holdeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hold.
- holiest — specially recognized as or declared sacred by religious use or authority; consecrated: holy ground.
- holster — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- hooklet — a little hook, used for example in zoology in reference to a tiny hook found on or in the body of an organism
- hooptie — A car, especially an old or dilapidated one.
- hooters — a person or thing that hoots.
- hoplite — a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- hoptree — any of several North American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Ptelea, of the citrus family, especially P. trifoliata, having trifoliate leaves and roundish, waferlike fruit.
- hornest — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornets — Plural form of hornet.
- hornlet — a small horn
- horrent — bristling; standing erect like bristles.
- hostage — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.