8-letter words containing t, h, o
- 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 cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot cell — a protected enclosure, usually made of concrete, containing shielded windows and manipulators operated by remote control, used to handle radioactive materials, as for processing, testing, etc.
- hot comb — a comblike device that is heated, usually electrically, and used to straighten or style the hair
- hot jazz — jazz which is extremely emotionally intense and features a lot of improvisation
- hot lick — lick (def 11).
- 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 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 pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hot pool — a pool or spring that is heated geothermally
- 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 take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hot tear — a crack formed in hot metal during cooling, caused by an improper pouring temperature or undue restraint.
- hot well — a tank or reservoir in which hot water is collected before being recirculated, especially condensed steam about to be returned to a boiler.
- 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
- hot-comb — to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hot-foot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hot-roll — to roll (metal) at a heat high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hot-spot — to stop (a forest fire) at a hot spot.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hot-work — to work (metal) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotblood — a collective term for Arabian, Barb, and Thoroughbred horses
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hotchpot — the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally, especially when they are to be divided among the children of a parent dying intestate.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotfoots — Plural form of hotfoot.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- hothouse — an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hotlists — Plural form of hotlist.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotshots — Plural form of hotshot.