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15-letter words containing k, h

  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • king's shilling — (until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
  • kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-johnHenry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
  • make a hit with — to make a favourable impression on
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • make the effort — try
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
  • microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
  • night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
  • novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
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