12-letter words containing k, t, h
- kitchenettes — Plural form of kitchenette.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- kith and kin — friends and family
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
- metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- monk's cloth — a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
- network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- night monkey — douroucouli.
- no thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- non-thinking — rational; reasoning: People are thinking animals.
- north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- north korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- off the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the block — for sale at auction