9-letter words containing k, n, i
- forethink — to have prescience of
- forkiness — the state of being forky
- 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.
- freckling — Present participle of freckle.
- fthinking — a combination of thinking and feeling
- fucking a — an emphatic exclamation of approval
- fukienese — a group of Chinese dialects, including Amoy and Taiwanese, spoken in Fukien province in southeastern China as well as in Taiwan.
- funkiness — Jazz. having an earthy, blues-based quality or character.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gawkiness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- geekiness — The state of being geeky.
- giantlike — Like a giant; enormous.
- 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.
- gigantick — Obsolete form of gigantic.
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- glandlike — Resembling a gland or some aspect of one.
- gnomelike — Resembling a gnome.
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gowdspink — the goldfinch
- grandkids — grandchild.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- haakon iv — surnamed Haakonsson. 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63). He strengthened the monarchy and extended Norwegian territory to include Iceland and Greenland
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- 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". - 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.
- 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.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hit skins — to have sexual intercourse
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- hornywink — a lapwing
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.