9-letter words containing k, i, d, n
- gowdspink — the goldfinch
- grandkids — grandchild.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- 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". - hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
- identikit — A picture of a person, especially one sought by the police, reconstructed from typical facial features according to witnesses' descriptions.
- india ink — black ink made of lampblack, glue
- inkstands — Plural form of inkstand.
- iron duke — 1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- kandinsky — Wassily [vas-uh-lee] /ˈvæs ə li/ (Show IPA), or Vasili [vas-uh-lee,, vuh-sil-ee;; Russian vuh-syee-lyee] /ˈvæs ə li,, vəˈsɪl i;; Russian vʌˈsyi lyi/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, Russian painter.
- kayibanda — Grégoire [grey-gwahr;; French grey-gwar] /greɪˈgwɑr;; French greɪˈgwar/ (Show IPA), 1924–76, president of the Republic of Rwanda 1962–73.
- kick down — vehicle: lower gear
- kickstand — a device for supporting a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use, pivoted to the rear axle in such a way that it can be kicked down below the rear wheel.
- kiddingly — to talk or deal jokingly with; banter; jest with: She is always kidded about her accent.
- kiddywink — a child
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnaping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kilderkin — a unit of capacity, usually equal to half a barrel or two firkins.
- kindliest — Superlative form of kindly.
- kindlings — Plural form of kindling.
- kingdomed — with a kingdom
- kingswood — a city in South Gloucestershire, SW England.
- kinkaider — a person who received free land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- klondiker — an East European factory ship
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knickered — wearing knickers.
- kol nidre — a liturgical prayer for recitation at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur asking that all unfulfilled vows to God be nullified and all transgressions forgiven.
- kundalini — the vital force lying dormant within one until activated by the practice of yoga, which leads one toward spiritual power and eventual salvation.
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- libeskind — Daniel. born 1946, US architect, born in Poland. Based in Berlin, he designed the Jewish Museum there (1999), the Imperial War Museum in Manchester (2000), and the "Freedom Tower" that will replace the World Trade Center in New York
- link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- linksland — land used or suitable for use as golf links
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- nickelled — Simple past tense and past participle of nickel.