9-letter words containing h, e, t
- khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- khodzhent — a city in N Tajikistan on the Syr Darya.
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- kittenish — coyly playful.
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- knightage — a group of knights or knights collectively
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- lengthens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lengthen.
- lengthful — long
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthily — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- less than — to a smaller extent, amount, or degree: less exact.
- lethality — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lightener — That which lightens.
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- lightlike — (mathematics) (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.
- lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.