9-letter words containing s, h, a, i
- 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.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lash line — a rope or cord for lashing together the edges of two flats or other pieces of theatrical scenery.
- lash rail — a rail, solidly fixed to the bulwarks of a vessel, to which objects on deck can be lashed.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lavishing — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lithiasis — the formation or presence of stony concretions, as calculi, in the body.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- lustihead — lustiness
- machinist — a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
- maggotish — Maggoty.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- maharishi — a teacher of spiritual and mystical knowledge; religious sage: often used as an honorary title.
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- maidenish — Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- mammonish — Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.
- manicheus — Manes.
- mannishly — In a mannish manner.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.