9-letter words containing h, o, t, i
- horridest — Superlative form of horrid.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horseshit — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortation — The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
- hortative — hortatory.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hospitium — a hospice.
- hostaging — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hot issue — a hot issue is a shares issue which sells at more than the public offer price on the first day of trading
- hot light — a powerful light used in television production.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- house-sit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howtowdie — a Scottish dish of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- hydantoin — a colorless, needlelike, crystalline compound, C 3 H 4 N 2 O 2 , used in the synthesis of pharmaceutical substances and resins.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- hyolithid — any invertebrate of the extinct genus Hyolithes, most common in the Cambrian Period, having a limy, univalve shell, and thought to be related to the pteropods.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotoid — resembling or similar to hypnosis
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ichthyoid — Also, ichthyoidal. fishlike.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- in theory — in principle
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.