6-letter words containing k, h
- kishke — Also called stuffed derma. Jewish Cookery. a beef or fowl intestine stuffed with a mixture, as of flour, fat, onion, and seasonings, and roasted.
- kiswah — a decorative veil draped over the walls of the Kaʿba, now made of black brocade embroidered in gold with inscriptions from the Koran.
- kitsch — something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
- kitteh — (Internet, neologism) A cat, chiefly in a lolcat type picture.
- kiushu — an island in SW Japan. 15,750 sq. mi. (40,793 sq. km).
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- klepht — a Greek or Albanian brigand, exalted in the war of Greek independence as a patriotic robber; guerrilla.
- klesha — any of the five hindrances to enlightenment, which are ignorance or avidya, egocentricity, attachments, aversions, and the instinctive will to live.
- knight — Eric, 1897–1943, U.S. novelist, born in England.
- knyght — Obsolete spelling of knight.
- kocher — Emil Theodor [ey-meel tey-oh-dohr] /ˈeɪ mil ˈteɪ oʊˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1841–1917, Swiss physiologist, pathologist, and surgeon: Nobel Prize 1909.
- kochia — any plant of the widely distributed annual genus Kochia, esp K. Scoparia trichophila, grown for its foliage, which turns dark red in the late summer: family Chenopodiaceae
- kohima — a state in NE India. 6366 sq. mi. (16,488 sq. km). Capital: Kohima.
- kohler — Wolfgang [vawlf-gahng] /ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1967, German psychologist.
- kosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- kowhai — a New Zealand tree, Sophora tetraptera, of the legume family, having clusters of golden-yellow flowers.
- krutch — Joseph Wood, 1893–1970, U.S. critic, biographer, naturalist, and teacher.
- kuchen — a yeast-raised coffeecake, often containing fruit.
- kuhnau — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1660–1722, German clavier composer, organist, and author.
- kulich — a sweetened, dome-shaped yeast bread, rich in butter and eggs and also containing raisins and topped with a sugar icing: traditionally made at Easter and served with paskha.
- kurukh — a Dravidian language spoken in central India.
- kutcha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kvetch — to complain, especially chronically.
- kwacha — a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Malawi, equal to 100 tambala. Abbreviation: K.
- kyushu — an island in SW Japan. 15,750 sq. mi. (40,793 sq. km).
- ladakh — a region in Jammu and Kashmir, India, on the borders of China (Tibet) and Pakistan. 45,762 sq. mi. (118,524 sq. km).
- lakish — similar to the poetry of the Lake poets
- maketh — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- makkah — Mecca (def 1).
- mikvah — a ritual bath to which Orthodox Jews are traditionally required to go on certain occasions, as before the Sabbath and after each menstrual period, to cleanse and purify themselves.
- mikveh — (Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.
- mohawk — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- mohock — one of a group of aristocratic ruffians who attacked people at night on the streets of London in the early part of the 18th century.
- mokihi — a type of raft, usually made out of flax stems
- moksha — freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience.
- muzhik — a Russian peasant.
- nashik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- naskhi — the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.
- oakham — a market town in E central England, the administrative centre of Rutland. Pop: 9620 (2001)
- ockham — William of, died 1349? English scholastic philosopher.
- orkhon — a river in E central Asia, flowing E, N, and then NE from the N central Mongolian People's Republic to the Selenga River. About 400 miles (645 km) long.
- pachak — the fragrant roots of an Asian plant, used as incense
- pakahi — acid land that is unsuitable for cultivation
- pakeha — (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Māori ancestry, esp a White person
- pakihi — an area of swampy infertile land
- pashka — a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- phreak — phone phreak.
- phuket — an island near the W coast of Thailand. 294 sq. mi. (761 sq. km).
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.