9-letter words containing a, b, k, h
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bushwhack — to ambush
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- halfbeaks — Plural form of halfbeak.
- hand back — return, give back
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hark back — to listen attentively; hearken.
- haskell b — (language) An early version of Haskell by Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]> from Chalmers. Haskell B evolved into a full-featured implementation of Haskell 1.2, with quite a few extensions. Ports exist for many platforms including Sun, DEC, Sequent, IBM PC, Symmetry and unsupported versions for NS32000, IBM RT/PC, Cray, Sun-3, Vax, ARM, and RS/6000. Version 0.999.5 included a compiler, interpreter, library, documentation, and examples. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- hatchback — a style of automobile in which the rear deck lid and window lift open as a unit.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- khanbalik — an ancient city in Mongol China, the capital of Kublai Khan: present-day site of Beijing.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- københavn — a seaport in and the capital of Denmark, on the E coast of Zealand.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
- push back — force to retreat