8-letter words containing o, t, s
- histosol — a worldwide soil type rich in organic matter, as peat, especially prevalent in wet, poorly drained areas.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hit show — successful tv series
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- hoarsest — Superlative form of hoarse.
- hoastman — a member of a former guild of tradesmen responsible for loading and shipping coal in Newcastle upon Tyne
- hoaxster — Alternative form of hoaxer (rare).
- hobbyist — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- holdouts — Plural form of holdout.
- holistic — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- holocost — Misspelling of holocaust.
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- holsters — Plural form of holster.
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- homilist — a person who writes or delivers homilies.
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hootches — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hortense — a female given name.
- 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.
- 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.
- hosteler — a person who operates a hostel.
- hostelry — an inn or hotel.
- hostiles — Plural form of hostile.
- hostlers — Plural form of hostler.
- hostless — a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hostship — The property of being a host.
- hot mess — a person or thing that is a mess, as in being disorganized, confused, or untidy, yet remains attractive or appealing: He’s a hot mess when he wakes up in the morning!
- hot seat — electric chair.
- hot shit — a person who behaves in a showy or conceited manner; hotshot.
- hot shoe — a bracket on a camera body that provides support and electrical contact for an electronic flash attachment.
- hot shot — incandescent shot fired to set enemy ships or buildings on fire.
- 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-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hot-spot — to stop (a forest fire) at a hot spot.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hotfoots — Plural form of hotfoot.