9-letter words containing k, h
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hay shock — a haycock.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- head mike — a microphone worn on one's head.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headshake — A shake of the head.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- hell week — the week of hazing before initiation into a college fraternity or sorority.
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- herd-book — a book containing the pedigrees of breeds of pigs, cattle, etc
- herdbooks — Plural form of herdbook.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- high-risk — very dangerous
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
- hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
- hitchhike — to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.