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9-letter words containing k, t, h

  • chuck out — If you chuck something out, you throw it away, because you do not need it or cannot use it.
  • chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
  • cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
  • cockmatch — a cockfight
  • cuttyhunk — a twisted, linen fishline, especially one laid by hand.
  • dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
  • deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
  • duckwheat — India wheat.
  • dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
  • earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
  • earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
  • ethertalk — (networking)   An Apple Computer network standard used to extend an AppleTalk network across an Ethernet network. Compare LocalTalk.
  • fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
  • fish tank — aquarium
  • folkright — a law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.
  • forethink — to have prescience of
  • forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
  • fthinking — a combination of thinking and feeling
  • fuck with — to have sexual intercourse with.
  • ghostlike — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • gut check — a pause to assess the state, progress, or condition of something such as an enterprise or institution
  • hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
  • hackitude — (jargon)   An even sillier word for hackishness.
  • halakhist — one of the writers or compilers of the Halakhah.
  • halftrack — an army truck, armored vehicle, etc. with tractor treads in the rear, but with a pair of wheels in front
  • hamtramck — a city in SE Michigan, completely surrounded by the city of Detroit.
  • hand-knit — to knit by hand.
  • hard tack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
  • hard tick — any tick of the family Ixodidae, characterized by a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
  • hat trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
  • hat-trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
  • hatchback — a style of automobile in which the rear deck lid and window lift open as a unit.
  • hawk moth — any of numerous moths of the family Sphingidae, noted for their very swift flight and ability to hover while sipping nectar from flowers.
  • haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
  • haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
  • headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
  • headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
  • heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
  • heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
  • heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
  • heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
  • heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
  • hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
  • hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
  • hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
  • hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
  • hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
  • hitchhike — to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
  • honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
  • hook bolt — a bolt bent in a hooklike form at one end and threaded for a nut at the other.
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