7-letter words containing i, s, h
- insight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- insooth — (obsolete) truly.
- iphitus — a son of Eurytus, thrown to his death off the walls of Tiryns by Hercules.
- ipswich — a city in SE Suffolk, in E England.
- irishes — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- irishry — a custom, characteristic, or folkway of the Irish people
- ischial — Pertaining to the ischium. (from 19th c.).
- ischium — the lower portion of either innominate bone.
- ischury — (medicine) A retention or suppression of urine.
- isfahan — a city in central Iran: the capital of Persia from the 16th into the 18th century.
- ishmael — the son of Abraham and Hagar: both he and Hagar were cast out of Abraham's family by Sarah. Gen. 16:11, 12.
- ishvara — a personal and supreme god, supposed in dvaita Vedantism to be included with the world and Atman within Brahman.
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- isochor — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isohels — Plural form of isohel.
- isohume — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points of equal relative humidity.
- isohyet — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isoneph — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- isopach — a line drawn on a map connecting all points of equal thickness of a particular geologic formation.
- isotach — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points where winds of equal speeds have been recorded.
- ispahan — Isfahan.
- issueth — Archaic third-person singular form of issue.
- isthmic — isthmian
- isthmus — a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
- izhevsk — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe. 16,250 sq. mi. (42,088 sq. km). Capital: Izhevsk.
- jahvism — Yahwism.
- jahvist — Yahwist.
- jahwism — the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.
- jamshid — the king of the peris who, given a human form as punishment for his boast of immortality, became a powerful and wonder-working Persian king.
- japlish — Japanese spoken or written with a large admixture of English words and expressions.
- jawfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas.
- jewfish — any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
- jiggish — Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement.
- jihadis — Plural form of jihadi.
- jockish — typical of the behaviour of sportsmen; macho
- joshing — good-natured banter.
- kaddish — (italics) a liturgical prayer, consisting of three or six verses, recited at specified points during each of the three daily services and on certain other occasions.
- karahis — Plural form of karahi.
- karoshi — (in Japan) death caused by overwork
- kashiwa — a city in E Honshu, Japan.
- kashmir — the fine, downy wool at the roots of the hair of the Kashmir goat.
- kentish — of or relating to Kent or its people.
- kernish — of, belonging to, or resembling a kern
- khalasi — An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
- khalkis — Chalcis.
- khamsin — a hot southerly wind, varying from southeast to southwest, that blows regularly in Egypt and over the Red Sea for about 50 days, commencing about the middle of March.
- khoisan — a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San and the Khoikhoi.
- kiddish — Informal. a child or young person.
- kiddush — a blessing recited over a cup of wine or over bread on the Sabbath or on a festival.
- kinship — the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.