9-letter words containing h, a, k
- meat hook — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- mechanick — Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- mythmaker — a creator of myths.
- namecheck — A public mention or listing of the name of a person or thing such as a product, especially in acknowledgment or for publicity purposes.
- neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
- nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- oklahoman — a state in the S central U.S. 69,919 sq. mi. (181,090 sq. km). . Capital: Oklahoma City. Abbreviation: OK (for use with zip code), Okla.
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parokheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- peckinpah — David Samuel ("Sam") 1925–84, U.S. film director and screenwriter.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
- phil katz — (person) The founder of PKWARE, Inc..
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- phylakopi — an archaeological site on the Greek island of Melos, in the Cyclades group: excavations have revealed the remains of three successive ancient cities erected on a primitive Cycladic settlement.
- pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
- pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- push back — force to retreat
- raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rock-hard — Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- sackcloth — sacking.