9-letter words containing k, h, n
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- cuttyhunk — a twisted, linen fishline, especially one laid by hand.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dechunker — chunker
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- dovzhenko — Alexander P [uh-lyi-ksahndr] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr/ (Show IPA), 1894–1956, Russian motion-picture director.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- farrakhan — Louis (Louis Eugene Walcott) born 1933, U.S. religious leader: head of the Nation of Islam.
- fish skin — a condom.
- fish tank — aquarium
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- forethink — to have prescience of
- fthinking — a combination of thinking and feeling
- gang hook — a hook with several points, made by joining the shanks of two or three hooks.
- gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gymkhanas — Plural form of gymkhana.
- haakon iv — surnamed Haakonsson. 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63). He strengthened the monarchy and extended Norwegian territory to include Iceland and Greenland
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handshake — handshaking
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard neck — audacity; nerve
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- heraklion — Iraklion