9-letter words containing k, i, s
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- forskolin — (biochemistry) A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Coleus forskohlii; commonly used in the study and research of cell physiology.
- fossicked — Simple past tense and past participle of fossick.
- fossicker — Someone who fossicks.
- freakiest — Superlative form of freaky.
- fukienese — a group of Chinese dialects, including Amoy and Taiwanese, spoken in Fukien province in southeastern China as well as in Taiwan.
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- funkiness — Jazz. having an earthy, blues-based quality or character.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- gawkiness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- geekiness — The state of being geeky.
- 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.
- gieseking — Walter (Wilhelm) [wawl-ter wil-helm;; German vahl-tuh r vil-helm] /ˈwɔl tər ˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈvɑl tər ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1895–1956, German pianist and composer.
- gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- glasslike — a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
- glowstick — Alternative spelling of glow stick.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- goldstick — a gilt rod carried by the colonel of the Life Guards or the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms
- gooselike — Resembling or characteristic of a goose.
- gowdspink — the goldfinch
- grandkids — grandchild.
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- 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.