13-letter words containing k, s, h, e
- headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
- hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
- hit the books — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hit the skids — get into difficulties
- hognose snake — any harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, the several species having an upturned snout and noted for flattening the head or playing dead when disturbed.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- home row keys — home keys
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- horse-breaker — a person who breaks in a horse
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
- john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
- joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
- kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kinanesthesia — A disturbance of deep nerve sensitivity.
- kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kinross-shire — a former county of E central Scotland: became part of Tayside region in 1975 and part of Perth and Kinross in 1996
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
- knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
- kneehole desk — a desk with a space for the knees between two side panels
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.