6-letter words containing k, h
- hickok — James Butler ("Wild Bill") 1837–76, U.S. frontiersman.
- hickox — Richard (Sidney). 1948–2008, British conductor; musical director of the City of London Sinfonia and Singers (1971–2008)
- hickup — Alternative spelling of hiccup.
- hijack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- hijiki — a dark brown seaweed that grows in treelike fronds, used dried and shredded in Japanese cookery.
- hikers — Plural form of hiker.
- hiking — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hinkey — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hinkty — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hocked — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hocker — pawn1 .
- hocket — a technique in medieval musical composition in which two or three voice parts are given notes or short phrases in rapid alternation, producing an erratic, hiccuping effect.
- hockey — ice hockey.
- hockle — (of a rope) to have the yarns spread and kinked through twisting in use.
- hoicks — a cry used to encourage hounds to hunt
- hokier — Comparative form of hokey.
- hokily — In a hokey way.
- hoking — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- honked — the cry of a goose.
- honker — honky.
- honkey — honky.
- honkie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- hookah — a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
- hooked — bent like a hook; hook-shaped.
- hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- hookey — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- hookup — an act or instance of hooking up.
- hotkey — an assigned key or sequence of keys programmed to execute a command or perform a specific task in a software application: On Windows computers, the hotkey Ctrl+S can be used to quickly save a file.
- howker — (nautical) Alternative form of hooker.
- hucker — Someone who hucks (any meaning).
- huckle — the hip or haunch.
- hulked — Simple past tense and past participle of hulk.
- hunker — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkey — (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
- hunkie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker.
- hurkle — (intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
- husked — Simple past tense and past participle of husk.
- husker — the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
- hyksos — a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
- ithaki — Greek name of Ithaca (def 1).
- jhatka — the slaughter of animals for food according to Sikh law
- ka'bah — a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
- kaccha — (Sikhism) An undergarment worn by baptized Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
- kadesh — oasis in the desert, south of Palestine: Gen. 14:7, 16:14; Num. 32:8; Deut. 1:46, 2:14
- kahuna — (in Hawaii) a native medicine man or priest.
- kaishu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- kalakh — an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris River, founded 1274 b.c. and destroyed by the Medes 612 b.c.: its ruins are at Nimrud near Mosul in northern Iraq.
- kaliph — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- kamahi — a tall New Zealand hardwood tree, Weinmannia racemosa, with pinkish flowers
- kangha — the comb traditionally worn by Sikhs as a symbol of their religious and cultural loyalty: originally worn to keep the hair clean