8-letter words containing k, a, r, i
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kaieteur — a waterfall in central Guyana, on a tributary of the Essequibo River. 741 feet (226 meters) high.
- kailyard — a kitchen garden.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kakariki — any of various green-feathered New Zealand parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.
- karaklis — former name of Kirovakan.
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- karoline — a female given name.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- karyotin — chromatin
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- killadar — a fort commander or governor
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
- kiribati — a republic in the central Pacific Ocean, on the equator, comprising 33 islands. 263 sq. mi. (681 sq. km). Capital: Tarawa.
- kirigami — the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.
- kirkland — Jack, 1901–69, U.S. writer and playwright.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- kirkyard — (chiefly Scotland) A churchyard, especially one in Scotland.
- kitemark — (British) A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards Institute, based on the letters BS.
- 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.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- koriyama — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- kristina — a female given name, form of Christina.
- larrikin — a street rowdy; hoodlum.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- marikana — a town in the North West Province of South Africa; the platinum mine was the scene of a strike and armed conflict in 2012 during which 47 people, mostly mineworkers, died. Pop: 19 522 (2011)
- marikina — a city in Luzon, SW Philippines, E of Manila.
- markings — Plural form of marking.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.