8-letter words containing h, a, r, k
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- heartake — Rare spelling of heartache.
- heketara — a small shrub, Olearia rani, which has flowers with white petals and yellow centres
- herakles — Hercules
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- horokaka — a New Zealand low-growing plant, Disphyma australe with fleshy leaves and pink or white flowers
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kandahar — a city in S Afghanistan.
- kapparah — a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- khanjars — Plural form of khanjar.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kitharas — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- mar-hawk — a falconer who trains or handles the birds badly.
- markhoor — markhor.
- markhors — Plural form of markhor.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- rakehell — a licentious or dissolute man; rake.
- rakshasa — a demon in Hindu mythology
- reaphook — a sickle
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- 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.
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- 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
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- shankara — a.d. 789?–821? Hindu Vedantist philosopher and teacher.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- tarakihi — a common edible sea fish of New Zealand waters
- the mark — the middle of the stomach at or above the line made by the boxer's trunks