8-letter words containing a, k, i
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadbike — Alternative form of quad bike.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rickrack — a narrow, zigzag braid or ribbon used as a trimming on clothing, linens, etc.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rickyard — a place where haystacks or ricks are put
- rillmark — a mark or channel left by the trickle of a rill or brook
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- rink rat — a youth who spends a great deal of time at a hockey rink, helping with maintenance work, sweeping, etc., often without pay or in return for free admission to the rink.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).
- salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- sea pink — thrift (def 3).
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- shashlik — shish kebab.
- shekinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shizuoka — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Suruga Bay.
- si kiang — a river in S China, flowing E from Yunnan province to the South China Sea near Canton. 1250 miles (2012 km) long.
- sick bag — a bag provided on an aircraft or ship as a receptacle for vomit
- sick bay — a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
- sick day — a day for which an employee will be paid while absent because of illness.
- sick pay — wages or other compensation received from an employer during an illness.
- sick-bay — a hospital or dispensary, especially aboard ship.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- silktail — the waxwing