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