8-letter words containing k, t, h
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- outthink — to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
- pithlike — similar to pith
- pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
- resketch — to sketch again
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- shkotzim — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- shotokan — a popular system of karate based on the principles of Bushido and Zen
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skittish — apt to start or shy: a skittish horse.
- skylight — an opening in a roof or ceiling, fitted with glass, for admitting daylight.
- stockish — like a block of wood; stupid.
- tadzhiki — Tajiki
- tankship — a ship for carrying bulk cargoes of liquids; tanker.
- tarakihi — a common edible sea fish of New Zealand waters
- tashkent — a republic in S central Asia. 172,741 sq. mi. (447,400 sq. km). Capital: Tashkent.
- tashlikh — a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
- tchekhov — Anton Pavlovich [an-ton pav-loh-vich;; Russian uhn-tawn puh-vlaw-vyich] /ˈæn tɒn pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Russian short-story writer and dramatist.
- thankful — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thanking — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
- the book — the Bible
- the heck — You use the heck in expressions such as 'what the heck' and 'how the heck' in order to emphasize a question, especially when you are puzzled or annoyed.
- the jack — venereal disease
- the kirk — the Presbyterian Church of Scotland
- the like — similar things
- the mark — the middle of the stomach at or above the line made by the boxer's trunks
- the oaks — a horse race for fillies held annually at Epsom since 1779: one of the classics of English flat racing
- the park — a soccer pitch
- the poky — prison
- the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
- the sack — dismissal from employment
- the sick — sick or ill people collectively
- the skaw — a cape at the N tip of Denmark
- thickest — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- thickety — full of or covered with thickets, dense brush or undergrowth
- thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
- think up — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thinking — of or relating to thinking or thought.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).