10-letter words containing h, a, k, o
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- lake huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- lake tahoe — a lake between E California and W Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at an altitude of 1899 m (6229 ft). Area: about 520 sq km (200 sq miles)
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- leukorrhea — A whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- look ahead — see what is in front
- look sharp — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- noah's ark — the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- oak harbor — a town in NW Washington.
- oikophobia — Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- patchcocke — a clown
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- shockstall — the loss of lift and increase of drag experienced by transonic aircraft when strong shock waves on the wings cause the airflow to separate from the wing surfaces
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.