9-Letter Words Containing: H,O,K,E,D

• A move in ice hockey or lacrosse in which a player impedes another with his body

• A general health checkup performed by a medical practitioner.

• To perform a body check on someone.

• the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life

• something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

• complete power over a person or situation

• a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind

• the domain ruled by a sheik

• a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.