10-letter words containing k, h, o
- folklorish — (colloquial) Typical or similar to folklore.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- gorge hook — a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heath cock — the male of the black grouse.
- heatstroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- hektoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hektometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hektostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
- hellerwork — a form of deep tissue massage intended to release the build-up of physical and emotional traumas in the body
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- henry knox — (William) Frank(lin) 1874–1944, U.S. publisher and government official.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- herrenvolk — master race.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- hexokinase — an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of hexose sugars.
- hip pocket — back pocket of trousers
- hockey mom — a mother who spends much time driving her children to hockey rinks, watching their games, and encouraging their participation in the sport: Hockey moms are made of tough stuff.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- hokeypokey — (US) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
- hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
- homeworker — a person who works at home for pay, especially a pieceworker.
- honky-tonk — a cheap, noisy, and garish nightclub or dance hall.
- hoodwinked — to deceive or trick.