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11-letter words containing t, o, k, h

  • kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
  • karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
  • karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
  • katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
  • kente cloth — a fabric made esp. in Ghana, woven in strips of brightly patterned bands interspersed with bands of black
  • keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
  • kettle hole — a deep, kettle-shaped depression in glacial drift.
  • kid brother — younger male sibling
  • kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kitten moth — any of three prominent moths, notably the poplar kitten (Furcula bifida), that have larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • knighthoods — Plural form of knighthood.
  • knot stitch — a stitch that produces a knot on the fabric surface, made by twining the thread about the needle.
  • konigshutte — German name of Chorzów.
  • kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
  • kotahitanga — unity or solidarity
  • lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • nonthinking — an act of not thinking or choosing not to think, an absence of thought
  • north korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
  • oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
  • oath-taking — the action of making an oath
  • oathbreaker — Someone who breaks an oath.
  • of that ilk — of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named
  • on the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
  • on the make — 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.
  • on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  • on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
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