8-letter words containing o, t, a, h
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hot cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot jazz — jazz which is extremely emotionally intense and features a lot of improvisation
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hot seat — electric chair.
- hot take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hot tear — a crack formed in hot metal during cooling, caused by an improper pouring temperature or undue restraint.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- 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.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- 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.
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- jonathan — a son of Saul and friend of David. I Sam. 18–20.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- lahontan — Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California, about 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
- lanthorn — lantern.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- loathful — Scot. bashful; reluctant.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- mailshot — Bulk advertising sent through the post/mail.