11-letter words containing k, h
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- cache block — cache line
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.