9-letter words containing k, t, h
- the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- the yukon — a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 33 897 (2011). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles)
- thelytoky — parthenogenesis in which only females are produced.
- theotokos — a title of the Virgin Mary as the Mother of the incarnate Son of God.
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- thickener — something that thickens.
- thicketed — covered with thickets, dense brush, or undergrowth
- thickhead — a stupid person; blockhead.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- thickness — the state or quality of being thick.
- thickskin — a person lacking sensitivity or delicacy of feeling
- thieflike — like a thief
- thin skin — sensitivity to criticism
- think fit — to regard as proper or appropriate
- think out — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thinkable — capable of being thought; conceivable.
- thinkably — in a thinkable or conceivable manner
- thinkings — rational; reasoning: People are thinking animals.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- thylakoid — a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
- tightknit — well-organized and integrated.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tokoloshe — (in Bantu folklore) a malevolent mythical manlike animal of short stature
- tokushima — a seaport on NE Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- toothpick — a small pointed piece of wood, plastic, etc., for removing substances, especially food particles, from between the teeth.
- top whack — the maximum price
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
- truthlike — resembling the truth
- tuck shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- tuck-shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- unthanked — not thanked; not receiving or having received thanks
- wahpekute — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- walkathon — a long-distance walking race for testing endurance.
- weeknight — any night of the week, usually except Saturday and Sunday.
- whack out — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- whipstock — the handle of a whip.
- whit week — Whitsuntide.
- white oak — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- wickthing — a creeping animal, such as a woodlouse
- witchknot — a knot of hair
- witchlike — Resembling a witch or some aspect of one.