8-letter words containing u, t, o
- hothouse — an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- houghton — Henry Oscar, 1823–95, U.S. publisher.
- 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.
- 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
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- hunt out — track down, locate
- in doubt — uncertain
- 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.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- iris-out — the gradual disappearance of an image or scene through a contracting circle.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- j'ouvert — the eve of Mardi gras; the Monday morning on which the festivities begin
- jelutong — a tree, Dyera costulata, of the Malay Peninsula, from which a resinous latex is obtained.
- jerk out — to utter sharply and abruptly
- job hunt — search for employment
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jousters — Plural form of jouster.
- jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- jump out — be noticeable
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- just now — a moment ago
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- keep out — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kick out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick-out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- kohoutek — a comet that passed around the sun in late 1973 and early 1974 and was barely visible with the naked eye.
- kola nut — a brownish seed, about the size of a chestnut, produced by a tropical tree belonging to the genus Cola, containing both caffeine and theobromine: its extract is used in soft drinks.
- kotzebue — August Friedrich Ferdinand von [ou-goo st free-drikh fer-di-nahnt fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt fən/ (Show IPA), 1761–1819, German dramatist.