8-letter words containing a, s, k, i
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- fakirism — the beliefs and practices of fakirs
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fishhawk — The osprey.
- fishtank — a glass-sided tank for keeping, displaying, or observing live fish or other aquatic animals.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gawkiest — Superlative form of gawky.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- inkstand — a small stand, usually on a desk, for holding ink, pens, etc.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- k'ai shu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kalidasa — flourished 5th century a.d, Hindu dramatist and poet.
- kalimbas — Plural form of kalimba.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kallisto — Callisto (def 1).
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- karaklis — former name of Kirovakan.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
- katydids — Plural form of katydid.
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- keramics — ceramics.
- khalasis — Plural form of khalasi.
- kiamusze — Jiamusi.
- kiasuism — self-serving, competitive, or greedy: parents who are kiasu about their children’s education.
- kibitkas — Plural form of kibitka.
- kick ass — strikingly or overwhelmingly tough, aggressive, powerful, or effective: He finally built himself a kick-ass computer.
- kick-ass — strikingly or overwhelmingly tough, aggressive, powerful, or effective: He finally built himself a kick-ass computer.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- 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.
- 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.
- kingsman — (military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
- kinsella — W(illiam) P(atrick) born 1935, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, born in Canada.
- kinshasa — People's Republic of the, a republic in central Africa, W of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly an overseas territory in French Equatorial Africa; now an independent member of the French Community. 132,046 sq. mi. (341,999 sq. km). Capital: Brazzaville. Formerly French Congo, Middle Congo.