8-letter words containing o, t, r, h
- horchata — (in Spain and Latin American countries) a milky drink made from ground almonds, tiger nuts, or rice.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- 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.
- horovitz — Israel, born 1939, U.S. playwright.
- horowitz — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer,, vla-dee-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər,, vlæˈdi mɪər/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, U.S. pianist, born in Russia.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hosteler — a person who operates a hostel.
- hostelry — an inn or hotel.
- hostlers — Plural form of hostler.
- 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.
- hot-roll — to roll (metal) at a heat high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hot-work — to work (metal) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- 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
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hystero- — indicating the uterus
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- isothere — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- 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.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- lanthorn — lantern.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- marathon — a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
- 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).
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- mothered — Simple past tense and past participle of mother.
- motherer — Agent noun of mother: one who mothers.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.