8-letter words containing t, h, o, n
- histones — Plural form of histone.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hoastman — a member of a former guild of tradesmen responsible for loading and shipping coal in Newcastle upon Tyne
- hoe into — to eat (food) heartily
- hogtying — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- 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.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honeypot — a pot, as of glass or silver, for storing and serving honey.
- hop into — enter casually or spontaneously
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- 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.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
- hot link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- hot zone — a variable area towards the end of a line of text that informs the operator that a decision must be taken as to whether to hyphenate or begin a new line
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- houghton — Henry Oscar, 1823–95, U.S. publisher.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- huguenot — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hum tone — a note produced by a bell when struck, lying an octave or (in many English bells) a sixth or seventh below the strike tone
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- hunt out — track down, locate
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in sooth — in truth; truly
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- infotech — Information technology.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inthrone — enthrone.