9-letter words containing k, t, h
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lightlike — (mathematics) (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.
- like that — in that way
- like this — You weren't supposed to follow that link, it was just an example of what a link looks like.
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
- matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.
- matchmake — To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
- matchmark — a mark made on mating components of an engine, machine, etc, to ensure that the components are assembled in the correct relative positions
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- meat hook — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- milkwhite — Alternative form of milk-white.
- mouthlike — Resembling a mouth or some aspect of one.
- mythmaker — a creator of myths.
- neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- night key — a key for a night latch.
- nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- overthick — too thick
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parokheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
- phil katz — (person) The founder of PKWARE, Inc..
- photodisk — a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rethinker — a person who rethinks