8-letter words containing a, i, k, e
- hezekiah — a king of Judah of the 7th and 8th centuries b.c. II Kings 18.
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- ice pack — pack ice.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- jazzlike — (music) Resembling jazz.
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kaieteur — a waterfall in central Guyana, on a tributary of the Essequibo River. 741 feet (226 meters) high.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kakiemon — a Japanese porcelain design credited to Kakiemon Sakaida, first produced in the 17th century and widely collected and imitated in the West
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- kalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kalinite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of potassium and aluminum, chemically similar to alum.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kalliope — calliope (def 2).
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- karoline — a female given name.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keewatin — a district in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 228,160 sq. mi. (590,935 sq. km).
- keflavik — a town in SW Iceland, on the S shore of Faxa Bay: site of international airport.
- kehillah — the organization of the Jewish population of a community that deals with charities and other communal affairs.
- keloidal — Of or pertaining to keloids.
- kephalin — Alternative spelling of cephalin.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- ketamine — a synthetic nonbarbiturate general anesthetic, C 13 H 16 ClNO, used to induce anesthesia, alone or in combination, in surgical or diagnostic procedures of short duration; extensively used in veterinary medicine.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- kiamusze — Jiamusi.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kidnaped — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- kielbasa — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- killable — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- kilobase — (in expressing the lengths of nucleic acid molecules) 1,000 bases.
- kineshma — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- kinglake — Alexander William, 1809–91, English historian.
- kinsella — W(illiam) P(atrick) born 1935, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, born in Canada.
- kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
- kissable — inviting kissing through being lovable or physically attractive.