9-letter words containing k, i, s, h
- folkishly — In a folkish manner.
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- ghostlike — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- 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.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- high-risk — very dangerous
- 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.
- hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hookerish — Lb slang Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- horselike — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- irish elk — an extinct deerlike mammal of the genus Megaceros (Megaloceros), of the Pleistocene Epoch, having in the male extremely large, broad antlers.
- jack shit — anything at all; the least thing (usually used in the negative): He doesn't know jack shit.
- jacksmith — a smith who makes devices that enable the turning of meat while being roasted
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- k'ang hsi — (Shêng-tsu) 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kagoshima — a seaport on S Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- 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.
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.