9-letter words containing h, a, k, e
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- head mike — a microphone worn on one's head.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headshake — A shake of the head.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- homemaker — a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- 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
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kahikatea — A tall coniferous New Zealand tree used for its timber and resin. Its seeds, which are borne on conspicuous red stems, were formerly eaten by the Maoris.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.