11-letter words containing k, h, o
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokecherry — any of several North American species of cherry, esp Prunus virginiana, having very astringent dark red or black fruit
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- cockroaches — Plural form of cockroach.
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- cross-check — If you cross-check information, you check that it is correct using a different method or source from the one originally used to obtain it.
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- diskography — discography.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- earth smoke — fumitory.
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- forechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of forecheck.
- forechecker — (ice hockey) A player who forechecks.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- french knot — an ornamental stitch made by looping the thread three or four times around the needle before putting it into the fabric
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.