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9-letter words containing h, o, t

  • dogfights — Plural form of dogfight.
  • dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
  • dolphinet — a female dolphin
  • doltishly — In a doltish manner.
  • doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
  • dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
  • dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
  • dot pitch — (hardware)   The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
  • doughfoot — an infantryman in the U.S. Army, especially in World War II.
  • doughnuts — Plural form of doughnut.
  • doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
  • doughtily — In a doughty manner.
  • dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
  • down with — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
  • downlight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a metal cylinder, mounted on or recessed into the ceiling so that a beam of light is directed downward.
  • downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
  • downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
  • draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
  • drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
  • duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
  • dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
  • duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
  • duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
  • dust shot — the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
  • dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
  • dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
  • dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
  • dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
  • eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
  • earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
  • earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
  • earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
  • earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
  • east goth — an Ostrogoth.
  • ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
  • ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
  • ectotherm — a cold-blooded animal.
  • edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
  • egg tooth — a calcareous prominence at the tip of the beak or upper jaw of an embryonic bird or reptile, used to break through the eggshell at hatching.
  • egotheism — The deification of one's own self.
  • eightfoil — an eight-leaved flower shape
  • eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
  • eightfoot — measuring eight feet
  • eightsome — A group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome.
  • einthoven — Willem. 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist. A pioneer of electrocardiography, he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1924
  • either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
  • eleuthero — (informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.
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