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8-letter words containing a, s, k

  • outtakes — Plural form of outtake.
  • oversoak — to soak too much
  • overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
  • packsack — a leather or canvas carrying bag, usually one that can be strapped over the shoulder and used to carry food and personal items when a person is traveling.
  • pakistan — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
  • panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
  • panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
  • pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
  • passbook — a bankbook.
  • pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
  • peakless — having no peak, without a peak
  • polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
  • post oak — any of several American oaks, especially Quercus stellata, the wood of which is used for posts.
  • postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
  • pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
  • pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
  • quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
  • rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
  • rakshasa — a demon in Hindu mythology
  • 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.
  • rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
  • rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
  • rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
  • ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
  • raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
  • redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
  • rickshaw — jinrikisha.
  • rinkhals — ringhals.
  • rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
  • ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
  • sack out — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
  • sackable — offence: justifying loss of job
  • sackless — innocent or not deserving of punishment
  • sad sack — a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
  • 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).
  • sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
  • 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.
  • saltwork — place where salt is refined
  • sandakan — a city in NE Sabah, in E Malaysia.
  • sandbank — a large mass of sand, as on a shoal or hillside.
  • sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
  • sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
  • sather-k — (language)   Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • satyrisk — a small satyr
  • sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
  • 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.
  • scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
  • schapska — a cavalry helmet with a flat, square top
  • sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
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