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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).
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