9-letter words containing h, o, k
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- chemokine — a type of protein produced during inflammation that activates white blood cells
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chinovnik — an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- chokecoil — a type of electronic inductor
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokehold — the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind using one arm
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chuck off — to abuse or make fun of
- chuck out — If you chuck something out, you throw it away, because you do not need it or cannot use it.
- chuckhole — a pothole
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cook shop — a shop that sells cookery equipment
- cookhouse — a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen
- cookshack — a makeshift building in which food is cooked
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- deck hook — hook1 (def 16).
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- dog whelk — any of several carnivorous, marine gastropods of the family Nassidae.