9-letter words containing i, s, a, k
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- fair oaks — Also called Seven Pines. a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: battle 1862.
- fairbanks — Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- fish cake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fish hawk — osprey (def 1).
- fish tank — aquarium
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flagstick — pin (def 13).
- flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flakiness — of or like flakes.
- flatstick — with great speed or effort
- forjaskit — exhausted
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- freakiest — Superlative form of freaky.
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- gawkiness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- 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.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- grandkids — grandchild.
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
- halakhist — one of the writers or compilers of the Halakhah.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- 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.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- 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.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- 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.
- i ask you — If you say 'I ask you', you are emphasizing how much you disapprove of someone or something.
- ice-skate — to skate on ice.
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- in-basket — in-box.
- ink stain — a mark made by ink
- inkstands — Plural form of inkstand.
- intertask — Between tasks.