12-letter words containing k, a, h, n
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- kith and kin — friends and family
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- manuka honey — honey from the nectar of the manuka tree, often used for medicinal purposes; known as active manuka honey if it has a UMF rating of over 10.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- no thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
- north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- north korean — 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.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- pack a punch — be powerful
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- 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.
- phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
- rohnert park — a city in W California.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.