8-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- 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.
- 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.
- hortense — a female given name.
- 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.
- 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 shoe — a bracket on a camera body that provides support and electrical contact for an electronic flash attachment.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- hothouse — an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
- housesit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- housetop — the top or roof of a house.
- hystero- — indicating the uterus
- isohyets — Plural form of isohyet.
- isophote — a line on a diagram or image of a galaxy, nebula, or other celestial object joining points of equal surface brightness
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- 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.
- jehovist — Yahwist.
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- one-shot — a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- oreshoot — a rich concentration in an orebody.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- orthoses — Plural form of orthosis.
- outhouse — an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.