8-letter words containing t, o, h, l, e
- 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.
- 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 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 well — a tank or reservoir in which hot water is collected before being recirculated, especially condensed steam about to be returned to a boiler.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- 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.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- knothole — a hole in a board or plank formed by the falling out of a knot or a portion of a knot.
- koheleth — the book of Ecclesiastes.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- 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.
- low tech — low-technology.
- low-tech — low-technology.
- methanol — methyl alcohol.
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- oathable — having the ability to take an oath or to be believed while on oath
- 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.
- othoniel — Othniel.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- regolith — mantle rock.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- selihoth — (used with a plural verb) liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast days.
- shothole — a hole drilled in rock, coal, ore, etc., to hold explosives used in blasting.
- shotwell — James Thomson, 1874–1965, U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator.
- tabouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- technol. — technological
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.