9-letter words containing k, a, r, i
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- 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.
- fairylike — Resembling a fairy or some aspect of one.
- farcelike — Resembling or characteristic of farce.
- farm-bike — a motorcycle built for off-road travel
- filemaker — (software) A database application developed by Claris. It is currently the leading database application for the Macintosh and is the second most popular standalone package for Windows.
- filmmaker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- firebreak — a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.
- firedrake — a mythical fiery dragon.
- forjaskit — exhausted
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- freakiest — Superlative form of freaky.
- frederika — a female given name.
- friedcake — Chiefly Inland North. a doughnut or other small cake cooked in deep fat.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- fruitcake — a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
- 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.
- hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
- hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- 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.
- 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
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
- ice maker — machine that makes ice cubes
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.