9-letter words containing s, h, i
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- jump ship — to desert, esp to leave a ship in which one is legally bound to serve
- 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.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kill shot — a decisive smashing or punching of a ball with the hand or a racquet such that it is virtually unreturnable, as in volleyball, handball, or badminton.
- killifish — any of several small, oviparous cyprinodont fishes, especially of the genus Fundulus, found in salt, brackish, and fresh waters.
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kitschify — to make something kitsch
- kittenish — coyly playful.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- 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.
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- 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.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lickerish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightings — Plural form of lighting.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.