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10-letter words containing k, h

  • black hawk — 1767-1838; chief of the Sauk people: leader in the Black Hawk War against the U.S. (1832)
  • black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
  • black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
  • black sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
  • black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
  • blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
  • blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
  • bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
  • bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
  • boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
  • book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
  • book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
  • borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
  • brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
  • brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
  • cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
  • cackhanded — left-handed
  • card shark — an expert card player
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • chaikovski — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • chain-link — designating a fence made of galvanized steel links that are continuously interwoven
  • chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chalk line — a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
  • chalk talk — an informal lecture with pertinent points, explanatory diagrams, etc, shown on a blackboard
  • chalk-talk — a talk or lecture in which the speaker illustrates points by drawing on a blackboard: The coach gave a chalk talk before the big game.
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