12-letter words containing h, o, k, i, n
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- monkeyshines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- night monkey — douroucouli.
- non-thinking — rational; reasoning: People are thinking animals.
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- on the skite — on a drinking spree
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- tie the knot — an interlacing, twining, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob or lump, for fastening, binding, or connecting two cords together or a cord to something else.
- to think big — If you think big, you make plans on a large scale, often using a lot of time, effort, or money.
- unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time