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9-letter words containing k, h

  • bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
  • bakhtaran — city in W Iran: pop. 561,000
  • baksheesh — money given as a tip, a present, or alms
  • bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
  • ball hawk — Baseball. an outfielder with outstanding defensive skills, especially at fielding fly balls.
  • bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
  • bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
  • barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
  • batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
  • bed check — an inspection conducted soon after bedtime or during the night, as in a barracks or dormitory, to determine the presence or absence of persons required by regulation to be in bed.
  • benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
  • berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
  • bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
  • bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
  • bhikkhuni — a fully ordained Buddhist nun
  • bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
  • bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
  • birthmark — A birthmark is a mark on someone's skin that has been there since they were born.
  • black hat — a computer hacker who carries out illegal malicious hacking work
  • black haw — any of several E U.S. shrubs or small trees (genus Viburnum) of the honeysuckle family, having blue-black fruits
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blackhead — Blackheads are small, dark spots on someone's skin caused by blocked pores.
  • blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • boat hook — a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
  • bodycheck — obstruction of another player
  • boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
  • bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
  • boot hook — one of a pair of L -shaped metal hooks fixed to a handle, for drawing on a boot by inserting it through a bootstrap.
  • boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
  • bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
  • brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
  • brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
  • brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
  • buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
  • buckbrush — a flowering American shrub, Andrachne phyllantoides, of the family Euphorbiaceae
  • buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
  • buckishly — in a buckish manner
  • buckteeth — a projecting tooth, especially an upper front tooth.
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
  • buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
  • bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
  • bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
  • bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
  • bushwhack — to ambush
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