8-letter words containing k, e, r, s
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- 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.
- reckless — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- resketch — to sketch again
- restrike — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- restruck — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- riskless — free of risk
- rockless — lacking rocks
- rockrose — any plant of the genus Cistus or some allied genus, as Helianthemum.
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- rukeyser — Muriel, 1913–80, U.S. poet.
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seversky — Alexander Procofieff de [pruh-koh-fee-ef duh] /prəˈkoʊ fiˌɛf də/ (Show IPA), 1894–1974, U.S. airplane designer, manufacturer, and writer; born in Russia.
- sex work — prostitution.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shrinker — a person or thing that shrinks.
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- shvernik — Nikolai [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.
- sickener — something that sickens or disgusts.
- sickerly — surely
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- skerrick — a small piece or quantity; a bit: Not even a skerrick of cake was left.
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skewered — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- skinnery — a place where skins are prepared, as for the market.
- skinnier — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- skittery — skittish.
- skyborne — airborne.
- skydiver — freefalling parachutist
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- sneakers — a high or low shoe, usually of fabric such as canvas, with a rubber or synthetic sole.
- snickery — of, pertaining to, or resembling a snicker
- sockeroo — a notable success: Her performance was a sockeroo.
- soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- speakers — a person who speaks.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.