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15-letter words containing k, s, h, e

  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hog-nosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • horror-stricken — Horror-stricken means the same as horror-struck.
  • hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
  • jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • no great shakes — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • north yorkshire — a county in NE England. 3208 sq. mi. (8309 sq. km).
  • novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
  • oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
  • okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
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