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15-letter words containing k, h

  • harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
  • have a smack at — to attempt
  • have a whack at — to aim a blow at
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
  • hitchcock chair — a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or gold on black.
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
  • hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
  • hootchy-kootchy — cooch.
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
  • in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
  • jack the ripper — an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • jekyll and hyde — a person marked by dual personality, one aspect of which is good and the other bad.
  • just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • katathermometer — a thermometer used to measure the cooling power of ambient air
  • keep faith with — If you keep faith with someone you have made a promise to or something you believe in, you continue to support them even when it is difficult to do so.
  • keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
  • keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
  • kick the bucket — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
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