15-letter words containing k, a, h, n
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jekyll and hyde — a person marked by dual personality, one aspect of which is good and the other bad.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
- knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- on/off the mark — If something is off the mark, it is inaccurate or incorrect. If it is on the mark, it is accurate or correct.
- orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.