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9-letter words containing k, u, h

  • deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
  • doughlike — Resembling dough.
  • doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
  • duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
  • duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
  • duckwheat — India wheat.
  • dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
  • 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).
  • elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
  • fish duck — merganser.
  • flushwork — decorative treatment of the surface of an outside wall with flints split to show their smooth black surface, combined with dressed stone to form patterns such as tracery or initials
  • fuck with — to have sexual intercourse with.
  • fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
  • gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
  • gut check — a pause to assess the state, progress, or condition of something such as an enterprise or institution
  • hacked up — (jargon, programming)   Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
  • hackitude — (jargon)   An even sillier word for hackishness.
  • half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
  • hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
  • hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
  • hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
  • hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
  • hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
  • hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
  • housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
  • housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
  • houseleek — Also called old-man-and-old-woman. a succulent plant, Sempervivum tectorum, of the stonecrop family, native to Europe, having reddish flowers and leaves forming dense basal rosettes.
  • housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
  • huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
  • hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
  • huckstery — the business of a huckster
  • humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
  • humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
  • humbucker — (music) A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series - to
  • humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
  • hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
  • hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
  • hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
  • huskiness — big and strong; burly.
  • huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
  • in shtuck — in trouble
  • junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
  • junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
  • 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
  • kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
  • kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
  • kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
  • kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
  • karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
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