9-letter words containing a, k, i
- glandlike — Resembling a gland or some aspect of one.
- glasslike — a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
- goal kick — a free kick taken by a defensive player after the ball, having last been touched by an offensive player, has gone out of bounds over the goal line.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- grandkids — grandchild.
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- haakon iv — surnamed Haakonsson. 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63). He strengthened the monarchy and extended Norwegian territory to include Iceland and Greenland
- hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
- halakhist — one of the writers or compilers of the Halakhah.
- half-pike — spontoon.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- hara-kiri — Also called seppuku. ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practiced in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard tick — any tick of the family Ixodidae, characterized by a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
- hari-kari — hara-kiri.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- hat trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hat-trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- head mike — a microphone worn on one's head.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.