9-letter words containing k, a, h, n
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handshake — handshaking
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- 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 neck — audacity; nerve
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- 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.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- k'ang hsi — (Shêng-tsu) 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- khaganate — An empire comprising of several khanates.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.
- khanbalik — an ancient city in Mongol China, the capital of Kublai Khan: present-day site of Beijing.
- khansamah — a native house steward or butler.
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.