9-letter words containing k, s, h, a
- 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.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- 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.
- 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.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- 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.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- jack shit — anything at all; the least thing (usually used in the negative): He doesn't know jack shit.
- jackshaft — Also called countershaft. a short shaft, connected by belting, gears, etc., that transmits motion from a motor or engine to a machine or machines being driven (distinguished from main shaft).
- jacksmith — a smith who makes devices that enable the turning of meat while being roasted
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- k'ang hsi — (Shêng-tsu) 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kagoshima — a seaport on S Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.
- khansamah — a native house steward or butler.
- khattusas — Hattusas.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling