7-letter words containing o, t, h, i
- history — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- histrio — a stage actor
- hit off — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hit out — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hoatzin — a blue-faced, crested bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, of the Amazon and Orinoco forests, having as a nestling a large, temporary claw on the second and third digits of the forelimb, for climbing among the tree branches.
- hobbits — a member of a race of imaginary creatures related to and resembling humans, living in underground holes and characterized by their good nature, diminutive size, and hairy feet.
- hog-tie — If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
- 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.
- hold it — wait!
- holibut — halibut.
- holiest — specially recognized as or declared sacred by religious use or authority; consecrated: holy ground.
- holists — Plural form of holist.
- honiton — a type of lace with a floral sprig pattern
- hoof it — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hook it — to run or go quickly away
- hooktip — A slender moth that has hooked tips to the forewings. The caterpillar tapers to a point at the rear and rests with both ends raised.
- hooptie — A car, especially an old or dilapidated one.
- hooting — to cry out or shout, especially in disapproval or derision.
- hoplite — a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- horatio — a male given name.
- hornist — Someone who plays the horn (the musical instrument).
- hornito — a low oven-shaped mound of congealed lava, common in some volcanic districts, emitting hot smoke and vapors in the final stages of activity.
- hosties — Plural form of hostie.
- hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hosting — web hosting
- hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hot mic — a microphone that is actively recording or broadcasting, especially if it captures a comment or conversation that the speaker or speakers believed to be private (often used attributively): The techs should limit the number of hot mics to reduce acoustic feedback. The reporter was suspended after her profanity was caught on a hot mic. Their hot mic scheming confirmed the conspiracy theories.
- hot tip — suggestion: sth profitable
- hotline — hot line.
- hotlink — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- hotlist — A personal list of favorite or most frequently accessed websites compiled by an Internet user.
- hotmail — (messaging) A web mail service bought by Microsoft.
- hotties — Plural form of hottie.
- hotting — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hottish — Somewhat hot, not quite hot.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- hotwire — Alternative spelling of hot-wire.
- houting — a European whitefish, Coregonus oxyrhynchus, that lives in salt water but spawns in freshwater lakes: a valued food fish
- howbeit — Archaic. nevertheless.
- hyloist — an adherent of hylotheism
- imhotep — flourished 27th century b.c, Egyptian physician, sage, and architect: identified with Asclepius.
- inshoot — The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
- insooth — (obsolete) truly.
- io moth — a showy, yellow moth, Automeris io, of North America, having a prominent pink and bluish eyespot on each hind wing.
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- isohyet — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isotach — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points where winds of equal speeds have been recorded.