| astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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| backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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| (adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
| (noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
| (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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| deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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| dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| gymkhana | (noun) a meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes | - |
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| jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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| khaddar | (noun) a coarse homespun cotton cloth made in India | Synonyms: khadi |
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| khadi | (noun) a coarse homespun cotton cloth made in India | Synonyms: khaddar |
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| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms | - |
| khakis | (noun) a military uniform made of khaki fabric | - |
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| khalif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalifah |
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| khalifah | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif |
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| khamsin | (noun) an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring | - |
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| khan | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai |
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| (noun) a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries | - |
| khanate | (noun) the position of a khan | - |
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| (noun) the realm of a khan | - |
| khat | (noun) the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant | Synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, cat, kat, qat, quat |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| sheikha | (noun) the wife of a sheik | Synonyms: sheika |
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| sokha | (noun) a light wooden ard, consisting of two body ards, with their parallel beams forming the two shafts for a single horse-drawn tillage implement with two socket shares. | - |
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