9-letter words containing o, s, h, k
- fleshhook — a hook for use in lifting meat, as from a pot.
- 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
- folkishly — In a folkish manner.
- forehocks — Plural form of forehock.
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- foreshock — a relatively small earthquake that precedes a greater one by a few days or weeks and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake.
- forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- 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.
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hay shock — a haycock.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- 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.
- herdbooks — Plural form of herdbook.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- home keys — (hardware) The eight keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard on which a touch-typist positions their eight finger tips when starting to type or when resting between words or phrases. Typists learn the position of all keys on the keyboard in relation to the home keys. On a standard english keyboard layout, the home keys are ASDF for the left hand and JKL; for the right. Most keyboards have small raised bumps on the left and right index finger keys (F and J) so you can find the home keys by touch without looking.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- 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.
- hookerish — Lb slang Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
- hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
- hookworms — Plural form of hookworm.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- hornbooks — Plural form of hornbook.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horselike — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- hose-cock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- 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.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hymnbooks — Plural form of hymnbook.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- 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
- kagoshima — a seaport on S Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- 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.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- 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.