12-letter words that end in k
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- health check — a medical checkup
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heart attack — damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
- heart of oak — a brave person
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- impost block — dosseret.
- in good nick — in good condition
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- inquiry desk — a section of an office, business etc, which deals with inquiries nor requests for information
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
- jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
- james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- john hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- kinnikinnick — a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by the Indians and pioneers in the Ohio valley.
- kitchen sink — basin in kitchen
- kitchen-sink — marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- library book — a book owned by a library
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"