12-letter words containing k, h
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- king-whiting — northern kingfish.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen sink — basin in kitchen
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
- kitchen-sink — marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
- kitchenettes — Plural form of kitchenette.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- kith and kin — friends and family
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds