8-letter words containing k, h
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshee — without charge; free
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- chackles — to chatter; jabber.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- champaks — Plural form of champak.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- charkhas — Plural form of charkha.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chatchka — tchotchke
- chechako — cheechako
- check in — When you check in or check into a hotel or clinic, or if someone checks you in, you arrive and go through the necessary procedures before you stay there.
- check on — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- check up — If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- check-in — the act or fact of checking in.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- checkedy — checkered; having a checked pattern.
- checkers — a game for two players using a checkerboard and 12 checkers each. The object is to jump over and capture the opponent's pieces
- checking — the process of making sure that something is correct or satisfactory
- checkoff — the procedure whereby an employer pays the employee's union dues or other fees straight from his or her salary
- checkout — In a supermarket, a checkout is a counter where you pay for things you are buying.
- checkrow — a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
- checksum — a digit representing the number of bits of information transmitted, attached to the end of a message in order to verify the integrity of data
- checkups — Plural form of checkup.
- cheekful — the quantity that can be held in or cover a cheek
- cheekier — Comparative form of cheeky.
- cheekily — impudent; insolent: a cheeky fellow; cheeky behavior.
- cheeking — Present participle of cheek.
- chekiang — Zhejiang