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11-letter words containing k, t, h

  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kingtehchen — Jingdezhen.
  • kirby-smithEdmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
  • kitchen tea — a prewedding party to which guests bring an item of kitchenware or other gifts for the bride; shower.
  • kitchenalia — cooking equipment and other items found in a kitchen
  • kitchenette — a very small, compact kitchen.
  • kitchenmaid — a female servant who assists the cook.
  • kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
  • kitten heel — a thin, tapering heel on a woman's shoe, lower than a spike heel.
  • kitten moth — any of three prominent moths, notably the poplar kitten (Furcula bifida), that have larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • kittenishly — In a kittenish manner.
  • klieg light — a powerful type of arc light once widely used in motion-picture studios.
  • knee-length — socks; also knee-high
  • knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
  • knighthoods — Plural form of knighthood.
  • knit stitch — the most common stitch in knitting; stitches are formed on the left-hand needle by placing the point of the right-hand needle through the loop from left to right, winding the wool from the right-hand needle under the point of the right-hand needle and back across the front, pulling the loop through, and slipping the stitch off the left-hand needle
  • knot stitch — a stitch that produces a knot on the fabric surface, made by twining the thread about the needle.
  • konigshutte — German name of Chorzów.
  • kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
  • kotahitanga — unity or solidarity
  • kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
  • lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
  • landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
  • laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
  • leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
  • leatherlike — Resembling leather.
  • leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
  • leschetizky — Theodor [tey-uh-dawr,, -dohr,, thee-] /ˈteɪ əˌdɔr,, -ˌdoʊr,, ˈθi-/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Polish pianist and composer.
  • lightsticks — Plural form of lightstick.
  • lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
  • like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
  • matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
  • matchmaking — An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
  • matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
  • mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
  • metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
  • mike fright — extreme nervousness experienced on speaking into a microphone, as on radio or television.
  • milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
  • myth-making — a creator of myths.
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
  • night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
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