8-letter words containing a, k, i, r
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- diemaker — someone who makes dies
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.
- fakirism — the beliefs and practices of fakirs
- faliraki — a coastal resort in SE Greece, on Rhodes. Pop: 400 (2000 est)
- farouk i — 1920–65, last king of Egypt (1936–52). He was forced to abdicate (1952)
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- firemark — a plaque mounted on the outside of a building indicating the insurance company by which that building is insured
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- framekit — (language) A frame language.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- freakier — Comparative form of freaky.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- grandkid — grandchild.
- grimdark — (fandom) Having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hairlike — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
- harakiri — Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.