8-letter words containing k, e, d
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hocktide — a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter
- holodeck — (science fiction) A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
- hoodlike — Resembling a hood.
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hunkered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunker.
- ice dock — an enclosed basin in icy waters in which a vessel may lie to avoid being crushed.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- jacketed — Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
- jockeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of jockey.
- junketed — Simple past tense and past participle of junket.
- junkhead — (slang) a junkie, drug addict.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kaleyard — a kitchen garden.
- kedgeree — East Indian Cookery. a cooked dish consisting of rice, lentils, and spices.
- kedushah — a liturgical prayer of varying form that is incorporated into the third blessing of the Amidah during the repetition of this prayer by the cantor.
- keeshond — one of a Dutch breed of small dogs having thick, silver-gray hair tipped with black and a tail carried over the back.
- keftedes — a Greek dish of meatballs cooked with herbs and onions
- keloidal — Of or pertaining to keloids.
- kenneled — Simple past tense and past participle of kennel.
- kentwood — a city in W Michigan.
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- kerbside — a side of a pavement or street bordered by a curb.
- kerkrade — a town in the SE Netherlands, in Limburg: one of the oldest coal-mining centres in Europe. Pop: 50 000 (2003 est)
- key card — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- key deer — a subspecies of miniature white-tailed deer, native to the Florida Keys, where the small remaining population is kept in preserves.
- key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- keyed up — tense, nervous
- keynoted — Music. the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded; the tonic.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- kibitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibitz.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kidglove — diplomatic, careful or tactful
- kidnaped — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- killdeer — an American plover, Charadrius vociferus, having two black bands around the upper breast.
- kindless — lacking kindness; unkind; unsympathetic.
- kindlier — Comparative form of kindly.
- kindness — the state or quality of being kind: kindness to animals.
- kindreds — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kingdome — Obsolete spelling of kingdom.
- kingside — the side of the board on which the king is positioned at the start of the game, left for black and right for white.
- kippered — a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking.