8-letter words containing h, a, k
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hot take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- hunkpapa — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- junkhead — (slang) a junkie, drug addict.
- junkheap — A collection or pile of unwanted things.
- k'ai shu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kabbalah — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- kandahar — a city in S Afghanistan.
- kapparah — a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- katahdin — Mount, the highest peak in Maine, in the central part. 5273 feet (1607 meters).
- kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.
- kazachoc — a traditional Cossack dance
- kazachok — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- kedushah — a liturgical prayer of varying form that is incorporated into the third blessing of the Amidah during the repetition of this prayer by the cantor.
- keelhaul — Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.
- kehillah — the organization of the Jewish population of a community that deals with charities and other communal affairs.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- kephalin — Alternative spelling of cephalin.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
- khadijah — 554–619 ad, the first wife of the Prophet Mohammed, regarded as the first convert to Islam
- khalasis — Plural form of khalasi.
- khalifah — Dated form of caliph.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khamseen — Alternative spelling of khamsin.
- khanates — Plural form of khanate.
- khanjars — Plural form of khanjar.