8-letter words that end in i
- harakiri — Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
- harald i — called Harald Fairhair. ?850–933, first king of Norway: his rule caused emigration to the British Isles
- harold i — ("Harefoot") died 1040, king of England 1035–40 (son of Canute).
- helium i — colorless liquid helium existing below its boiling point of 4.2 K and above the lambda point of 2.186 K.
- helsinki — Finnish Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Capital: Helsinki.
- helvetii — a Celtic tribe from SW Germany who settled in Helvetia from about 200 bc
- henry ii — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- henry vi — 1165–97, king of Germany 1190–97; king of Sicily 1194–97; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1191–97 (son of Frederick I).
- hetairai — hetaera.
- huang ti — the legendary first emperor of China.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- illimani — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes, near La Paz. 21,188 feet (6458 meters).
- ivan iii — ("Ivan the Great") 1440–1505, grand duke of Muscovy 1462–1505.
- jai alai — a game resembling handball, played on a three-walled court between two, four, or six players who are equipped with a long, curved wicker basket, or cesta, strapped to the wrist for catching and throwing a small, hard ball against the front wall.
- jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
- james ii — 1633–1701, king of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1685–88 (son of Charles I of England).
- james vi — James I.
- jiantizi — Alternative spelling of Jiantizi.
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- john iii — (Catelinus) died a.d. 574, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 561–574.
- john vii — died a.d. 707, Greek ecclesiastic: pope 705–707.
- john xii — (Octavian) died a.d. 964, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 955–964.
- john xxi — (Petrus Hispanus) died 1277, Portuguese ecclesiastic: pope 1276–77.
- joseph i — 1678–1711, king of Hungary 1687–1711; king of Germany 1690–1711; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1705–11 (son of Leopold I).
- julius i — Saint, died a.d. 352, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 337–352.
- jumada i — the fifth month of the Muslim year
- jus soli — the principle that the country of citizenship of a child is determined by its country of birth.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kaitiaki — (NZ) The M\u0101ori concept of guardianship of the natural environment.
- kakariki — any of various green-feathered New Zealand parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- kemijoki — the longest river in Finland, flowing SW from Lapland to the Gulf of Bothnia. 345 miles (555 km) long.
- kerenski — Aleksandr Feodorovich [uh-lyi-ksahn-dr fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1970, Russian revolutionary leader: premier 1917; in the U.S. after 1946.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khichadi — Alternative form of khichdi.
- khoikhoi — a member of a pastoral people, physically and linguistically akin to the San, who inhabited Cape Province, South Africa, in the 17th century and now live mainly in Namibia.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- kiribati — a republic in the central Pacific Ocean, on the equator, comprising 33 islands. 263 sq. mi. (681 sq. km). Capital: Tarawa.
- kirigami — the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kolinski — Alt form kolinsky.
- komitaji — a rebel or revolutionary belonging to a guerrilla group in Macedonia or the Balkans
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- kosinski — Jerzy [jur-zee,, yezh-ee] /ˈdʒɜr zi,, ˈyɛʒ i/ (Show IPA), 1933–91, U.S. novelist, born in Poland.