8-letter words containing s, o, t, h
- 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.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- hothouse — an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hotlists — Plural form of hotlist.
- hotshots — Plural form of hotshot.
- hotspots — Plural form of hotspot.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- 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.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hystero- — indicating the uterus
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in sooth — in truth; truly
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- 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.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- 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.
- johnston — Albert Sidney, 1803–62, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- 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.
- lithosol — a group of shallow soils lacking well-defined horizons, especially an entisol consisting of partially weathered rock fragments, usually on steep slopes.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- longshot — Alternative spelling of long shot.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- mailshot — Bulk advertising sent through the post/mail.
- mammoths — Plural form of mammoth.
- mansholt — Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.