11-letter words containing h, o, k, e, r
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- houseworker — a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- keep kosher — to observe the Jewish dietary laws
- keeper hook — an S -shaped hook for securing doors, windows, etc., or for fastening a batten to a flat.
- kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- khmer rouge — a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
- kid brother — younger male sibling
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kohanga reo — an infant class in which the lessons are conducted in Māori
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leukorrheal — Relating to leukorrhea.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- 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.
- netherstock — a stocking
- north korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- oathbreaker — Someone who breaks an oath.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- 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.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.