8-letter words that end in it
- guitguit — any of several tropical American honeycreepers.
- gym suit — any outfit prescribed for wear while participating in gymnastics or sports.
- half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- hard-hit — adversely affected; struck by disaster.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- high bit — (Or "high-order bit") The most significant bit in a byte. See also meta bit, hobbit, dread high bit disease.
- hind tit — the worst or least valuable part; that left over after the best is taken or apportioned.
- hot shit — a person who behaves in a showy or conceited manner; hotshot.
- housesit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- implicit — implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
- inspirit — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- intromit — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- jailbait — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jumpsuit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- keep fit — do physical exercise
- keep nit — to keep watch, esp during illegal activity
- keep-fit — Keep-fit is the activity of keeping your body in good condition by doing special exercises.
- king-hit — a knockout punch.
- large it — to enjoy oneself or celebrate in an extravagant way
- lickspit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
- lime pit — (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair
- lit crit — literary criticism
- lit-crit — literary criticism.
- mao suit — an outfit worn in the People's Republic of China consisting of a Mao jacket and loose trousers.
- mess kit — a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- minnewit — Peter, Minuit, Peter.
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- mosh pit — Slang. an area usually in front of a stage where people mosh at rock concerts.
- netsplit — netburp
- on merit — If you judge something or someone on merit or on their merits, your judgment is based on what you notice when you consider them, rather than on things that you know about them from other sources.
- open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
- open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
- overedit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
- oviposit — to deposit or lay eggs, especially by means of an ovipositor.
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- photofit — A Photofit is a picture of someone wanted by the police which is made up of several photographs or drawings of different parts of the face. Compare e-fit, , identikit.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
- pre-edit — to edit in advance
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.