12-letter words containing k, a, h, n
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- hard linking — hard link
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hare krishna — a religious sect based on Vedic scriptures, whose followers engage in joyful congregational chanting of Krishna's name: founded in the U.S. in 1966.
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- headshakings — Plural form of headshaking.
- headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
- high-ranking — A high-ranking person has an important position in a particular organization.
- hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jenghis khan — Genghis Khan.
- jenghiz khan — Genghis Khan
- john hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
- kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
- kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- kath and kim — a personification of the White population of middle Australia
- keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- kinaesthesia — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthesis — kinesthesia.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- kind hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kind-hearted — having or showing sympathy or kindness: a kindhearted woman.
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy