11-letter words containing h, i, k, e
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- melchizedek — a priest and king of Salem. Gen. 14:18.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- mike fright — extreme nervousness experienced on speaking into a microphone, as on radio or television.
- milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- mock heroic — imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action: mock-heroic dignity.
- mock-heroic — imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action: mock-heroic dignity.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- neckerchief — a cloth or scarf worn round the neck.
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nikethamide — a stimulant derived from nicotinic acid, primarily affecting the respiratory system and formerly used to counteract tranquilizer overdoses
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
- shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
- shark siren — a siren sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- shish kebab — meat on skewer