8-letter words containing h, o, k
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- keyholes — Plural form of keyhole.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- khaskovo — a city in S Bulgaria.
- khoikhoi — a member of a pastoral people, physically and linguistically akin to the San, who inhabited Cape Province, South Africa, in the 17th century and now live mainly in Namibia.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kinghood — the state of being king; kingship.
- kneehole — an open space for the knees and legs, as under a desk.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- knothole — a hole in a board or plank formed by the falling out of a knot or a portion of a knot.
- know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
- kohekohe — a New Zealand tree, Dysoxylum spectabile, with large glossy leaves and reddish wood
- koheleth — the book of Ecclesiastes.
- kohinoor — an Indian diamond weighing 106 carats; now part of the British crown jewels.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kohoutek — a comet that passed around the sun in late 1973 and early 1974 and was barely visible with the naked eye.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- koolhaas — Rem. born 1944, Dutch architect and theorist, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975); buildings include the Grand Palais and associated developments in Lille, France (1989–96); books include S, M, L, XL (1996)
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- koshered — Simple past tense and past participle of kosher.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- kuleshov — Lev (Vladimirovich) [lef vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian lyef vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /lɛf ˌvlæd əˈmɪər ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɛf vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1970, Soviet film director.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- kyphosis — an abnormal, convex curvature of the spine, with a resultant bulge at the upper back.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- likehood — (obsolete) likelihood.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- markhoor — markhor.
- markhors — Plural form of markhor.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- monkhood — the condition or profession of a monk.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- nakhodka — a port in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, SE of Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan.