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9-letter words containing k, t, h

  • hook shot — a shot with one hand in which a player extends the shooting arm to the side and brings it back over the head toward the basket while releasing the ball.
  • horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
  • hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
  • housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
  • hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
  • huckstery — the business of a huckster
  • hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
  • in shtuck — in trouble
  • jack shit — anything at all; the least thing (usually used in the negative): He doesn't know jack shit.
  • jacklight — a portable cresset, oil-burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night.
  • jackshaft — Also called countershaft. a short shaft, connected by belting, gears, etc., that transmits motion from a motor or engine to a machine or machines being driven (distinguished from main shaft).
  • jacksmith — a smith who makes devices that enable the turning of meat while being roasted
  • jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
  • jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
  • junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
  • kadaitcha — Alternative form of kurdaitcha.
  • kahikatea — A tall coniferous New Zealand tree used for its timber and resin. Its seeds, which are borne on conspicuous red stems, were formerly eaten by the Maoris.
  • kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
  • kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
  • kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
  • kamchatka — a peninsula in the NE Russian Federation in Asia, extending S between the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. 750 miles (1210 km) long; 104,200 sq. mi. (269,880 sq. km) wide.
  • kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
  • karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
  • kathakali — a form of dance drama of S India using mime and based on Hindu literature
  • katharine — a popular female first name
  • katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
  • katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
  • kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
  • kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
  • katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
  • kenneth i — surnamed MacAlpine. died 858, king of the Scots of Dalriada and of the Picts (?844–858): considered the first Scottish king
  • ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
  • key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
  • khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
  • khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
  • kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
  • khattusas — Hattusas.
  • khodzhent — a city in N Tajikistan on the Syr Darya.
  • khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
  • kill shot — a decisive smashing or punching of a ball with the hand or a racquet such that it is virtually unreturnable, as in volleyball, handball, or badminton.
  • kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
  • kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
  • kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • kitschify — to make something kitsch
  • kittenish — coyly playful.
  • kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
  • kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
  • klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
  • knightage — a group of knights or knights collectively
  • knighting — Present participle of knight.
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