8-letter words containing a, s, k
- hawkshaw — a detective.
- haycocks — Plural form of haycock.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- haystack — a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
- headdesk — An expression of frustration or irritated disbelief, from the tendency of annoyed or irritated people to want to repeatedly bang their heads against their desk.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- herakles — Hercules
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- inkstand — a small stand, usually on a desk, for holding ink, pens, etc.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jackstay — a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent.
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- jaywalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- k'ai shu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- kaapstad — Afrikaans name of Cape Town.
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- 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).
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- kara sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and the N Russian Federation.
- karaklis — former name of Kirovakan.
- karakuls — Plural form of karakul.
- karlsbad — German name of Karlovy Vary.
- karlstad — a city in S Sweden.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- kasavubu — Joseph, 1917?–69, African political leader: first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) 1960–65.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.