8-letter words containing t, h, i, o
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- tholepin — thole1
- thomisid — a spider of the family Thomisidae, comprising the crab spiders.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- throw in — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
- thyrosis — any condition resulting from abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland.
- thyroxin — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- tin horn — someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
- tithonia — any of several tall composite plants of the genus Tithonia, native to Mexico and Central America, having yellow or orange-red ray flowers.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- tochises — tokus.
- toiseach — an ancient Celtic nobleman
- tolldish — a dish used to measure out the portion of grain given to a miller as payment for his or her work
- tonishly — in a stylish or fashionable manner
- toothing — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- toughish — somewhat tough.
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- township — a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces.
- toy with — If you toy with an idea, you consider it casually without making any decisions about it.
- toyishly — in a toyish or playful manner
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
- trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
- trip-hop — a type of British electronic dance music of the 1990s, influenced by drug culture
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- visigoth — a member of the westerly division of the Goths, which formed a monarchy about a.d. 418, maintaining it in southern France until 507 and in Spain until 711.
- whip out — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- whip-out — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- whiteboy — (UK, US, slang, mildly, pejorative) A young Caucasian male.
- whiteout — Meteorology. a condition, found in polar regions, in which uniform illumination from snow on the ground and from a low cloud layer makes features of the landscape indistinguishable. a condition of heavily falling or blowing snow in which visibility is very poor.
- whitepot — a type of custard or milk pudding traditionally baked in a pot
- whitlows — Plural form of whitlow.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.