9-letter words containing k, h, n
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- hong kong — a British crown colony comprising Hong Kong island (29 sq. mi.; 75 sq. km), Kowloon peninsula, nearby islands, and the adjacent mainland in SE China (New Territories) reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 404 sq. mi. (1046 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- hornbooks — Plural form of hornbook.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hornywink — a lapwing
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hymn book — Also called hymnbook [him-boo k] /ˈhɪmˌbʊk/ (Show IPA). a book of hymns for use in a religious service.
- hymnbooks — Plural form of hymnbook.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- in shtuck — in trouble
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- k'ang hsi — (Shêng-tsu) 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- kenneth i — surnamed MacAlpine. died 858, king of the Scots of Dalriada and of the Picts (?844–858): considered the first Scottish king
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.