9-letter words containing h, a, k, u
- khattusas — Hattusas.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- push back — force to retreat
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
- skean dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- skean-dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
- thank-you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- tokushima — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- unthanked — not thanked; not receiving or having received thanks
- wahpekute — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- whack out — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.