9-letter words containing a, s, h, k
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- kokoschka — Oskar [aws-kahr] /ˈɔs kɑr/ (Show IPA), 1886–1980, Austrian painter and dramatist.
- koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- masakhane — a political slogan of solidarity
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- meathooks — Usually, meat hooks. Slang. a hand or fist: Get your meat hooks away from that cake! It's for dessert.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- push back — force to retreat
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sakishima — a group of islands in the S Ryukyu Islands, off Taiwan and belonging to Japan.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
- shaikhism — the beliefs and practices of the Shaikhi.
- shake off — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.