11-letter words containing k, h
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- hanky-panky — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- header tank — a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heartbreaks — Plural form of heartbreak.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat stroke — 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.
- heatseekers — Plural form of heatseeker.
- heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- helmut kohl — Helmut [hel-moo t] /ˈhɛl mʊt/ (Show IPA), born 1930, German political leader: chancellor of West Germany (1982–90); chancellor of Germany 1990–98.
- herky-jerky — progressing in a fitfully jerky or irregular manner: a herky-jerky home movie shown on an old projector.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hideki tojo — Hideki [hee-de-kee] /ˈhi dɛˌki/ (Show IPA), 1884–1948, Japanese general: executed for war crimes.
- high ticket — big-ticket.
- high-necked — (of a garment) high at the neck.
- high-stakes — A high-stakes game or contest is one in which the people involved can gain or lose a great deal.
- high-ticket — big-ticket.
- highjacking — Present participle of highjack.
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
- hitchhikers — Plural form of hitchhiker.
- hitchhiking — Present participle of hitchhike.
- hokey cokey — a Cockney song with a traditional dance routine to match the words
- hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- honor trick — (in certain bidding systems) a high card or set of high cards that can reasonably be expected to take a trick, the total worth of such cards in a hand being the basis for evaluating its strength and bidding.
- hoodwinking — Present participle of hoodwink.
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- hop-picking — the activity of picking hops
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.