10-letter words containing h, a, l, k
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- happy talk — a style of news presentation characterized by cheerful commentary and informal conversation among anchors during newscasts
- hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.
- hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- hearselike — Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- keelhauled — Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- kettle hat — chapel de fer.
- khaki-like — similar to khaki
- khalkidíki — Chalcidice
- ki-swahili — Swahili (def 2).
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kubla khan — (italics) a poetic fragment (1797) by Coleridge.
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious
- 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.
- leaky heap — memory leak
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- leukorrhea — A whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina.
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- look ahead — see what is in front