8-letter words containing o, p, h, t
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- heptoses — Plural form of heptose.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- high-top — denoting a sneaker that covers the ankle.
- highspot — highlight
- hightops — Plural form of hightop.
- hilltops — Plural form of hilltop.
- hip boot — a hip-high boot, usually of rubber, worn by fishermen, firefighters, etc.
- hip-shot — (esp of a horse) having a dislocated hip
- hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- holoptic — of, relating to, or having eyes that meet at the top of the head
- holotype — the type specimen used in the original description of a species.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- 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.
- honeypot — a pot, as of glass or silver, for storing and serving honey.
- hook-tip — any of several moths of the genus Daepana, characterized by the hooked point on each forewing
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hop into — enter casually or spontaneously
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horopito — a bushy New Zealand shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, with red aromatic peppery leaves. It possesses antifungal and antibacterial properties
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- hos-stpl — Hospital Operating System - STructured Programming Language. A Fortran-like language with structured extensions.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hostship — The property of being a host.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hot pool — a pool or spring that is heated geothermally
- hot spot — 1. (primarily used by C/Unix programmers, but spreading) It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise. Such spikes are called "hot spots" and are good candidates for heavy optimisation or hand-hacking. The term is especially used of tight loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say) initial set-up costs or large but infrequent I/O operations. See tune, bum, hand-hacking. 2. The active location of a cursor on a bit-map display. "Put the mouse's hot spot on the "ON" widget and click the left button." 3. A screen region that is sensitive to mouse clicks, which trigger some action. Hypertext help screens are an example, in which a hot spot exists in the vicinity of any word for which additional material is available. 4. In a massively parallel computer with shared memory, the one location that all 10,000 processors are trying to read or write at once (perhaps because they are all doing a busy-wait on the same lock). 5. More generally, any place in a hardware design that turns into a performance bottleneck due to resource contention. 6. wireless hotspot.
- hot-spot — to stop (a forest fire) at a hot spot.
- hotchpot — the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally, especially when they are to be divided among the children of a parent dying intestate.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotspots — Plural form of hotspot.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
- housetop — the top or roof of a house.
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- iphition — (in the Iliad) a Trojan warrior slain by Achilles.
- isophote — a line on a diagram or image of a galaxy, nebula, or other celestial object joining points of equal surface brightness
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- jatropha — Any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- lopolith — a mass of igneous rock similar to a laccolith but concave downward rather than upward.
- 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).