7-letter words containing o, t, h
- hot war — open military conflict; an armed conflict between nations: The increasing tension in the Middle East could lead to a hot war.
- hot-dog — to perform unusual or very intricate maneuvers in a sport, especially surfing or skiing.
- hot-rod — to drive a hot rod.
- hotbeds — Plural form of hotbed.
- hotcake — A pancake.
- hotdogs — Plural form of hotdog.
- hotfoot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hothead — an impetuous or short-tempered person.
- hotjava — (web) A modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute programs written in the Java programming language. These programs, known as "applets", can be included (like images) in HTML pages. Because Java programs are compiled into machine independent bytecodes, applets can run on any platform on which HotJava runs - currently (December 1995) SPARC/Solaris 2 and Intel 80x86/Windows 95, Windows NT.
- 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.
- hotness — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hotpots — Plural form of hotpot.
- hotshot — highly successful and aggressive: a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec.
- hotspot — a country or region where dangerous or difficult political situations exist or may erupt, especially where a war, revolution, or a belligerent attitude toward other countries exists or may develop: In the 1960s, Vietnam became a hot spot.
- hotspur — Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- hottest — Superlative form of hot.
- 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.
- hotwash — Discussions and evaluations of an agency's (or multiple agencies') performance following an exercise, training session, or major event.
- 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.
- houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- houting — a European whitefish, Coregonus oxyrhynchus, that lives in salt water but spawns in freshwater lakes: a valued food fish
- howbeit — Archaic. nevertheless.
- huhehot — Hohhot.
- hurston — Zora Neale [neel] /nil/ (Show IPA), 1891?–1960, U.S. author and folklorist.
- hutongs — Plural form of hutong.
- 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.
- j-cloth — a light, absorbent, reusable cloth used for wiping household surfaces
- jet-hop — to travel by jet plane, especially to travel to a series of destinations on one trip.
- khojent — a town in Tajikistan on the Syr Darya River: one of the oldest towns in central Asia; textile industries. Pop: 146 000 (2005 est)
- knoweth — Archaic third-person singular form of know.
- kossuth — Ferenc [fer-ents] /ˈfɛr ɛnts/ (Show IPA), 1841–1914, Hungarian statesman.
- kyathos — a deep bowl set on a foot, often having a high voluted or serpentine handle rising from the brim and terminating immediately above the juncture of the body and the stem: used for ladling wine into drinking cups.
- lesotho — a monarchy in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 11,716 sq. mi. (30,344 sq. km). Capital: Maseru.
- lithoid — resembling stone; stonelike.
- lithops — living stones.
- loathed — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
- loather — unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.