8-letter words containing k, t, h
- hot take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hot-work — to work (metal) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- katahdin — Mount, the highest peak in Maine, in the central part. 5273 feet (1607 meters).
- kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- khanates — Plural form of khanate.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- khatanga — a river in N central Siberian Russia, flowing SE and N to the Khatanga Gulf of the Laptev Sea. 715 miles (1150 km) long.
- king-hit — a knockout punch.
- kitchens — Plural form of kitchen.
- kitharas — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- kithless — (obsolete) Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- knightly — characteristic of a knight; noble, courageous, and generous: knightly deeds.
- knitteth — Archaic third-person singular form of knit.
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- knothole — a hole in a board or plank formed by the falling out of a knot or a portion of a knot.
- koheleth — the book of Ecclesiastes.
- kohoutek — a comet that passed around the sun in late 1973 and early 1974 and was barely visible with the naked eye.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kushitic — a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
- kvetched — Simple past tense and past participle of kvetch.
- kvetcher — to complain, especially chronically.
- kvetches — Plural form of kvetch.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lathlike — Resembling a lath or some aspect of one.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- misthink — to think incorrectly or unfavorably.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.