11-letter words containing k, h, n
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
- matchmaking — An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- myth-making — a creator of myths.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- namechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of namecheck.
- neckerchief — a cloth or scarf worn round the neck.
- netherstock — a stocking
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nikethamide — a stimulant derived from nicotinic acid, primarily affecting the respiratory system and formerly used to counteract tranquilizer overdoses
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- nonthinking — an act of not thinking or choosing not to think, an absence of thought
- north korea — 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.
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oath-taking — the action of making an oath
- on the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- on the make — 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.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.