8-letter words containing k, e, t, o
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- impocket — to put in a pocket
- inkstone — a slab of stone used in Chinese calligraphy and painting to grind dry ink and mix it with water.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- j-stroke — (in canoeing) a stroke, made in the shape of the letter J, used to alter the course of the canoe, usually to compensate for drifting sideways.
- jerk out — to utter sharply and abruptly
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- jockette — a female jockey
- jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
- joktaleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.
- keep out — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- kentwood — a city in W Michigan.
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- keratoma — keratosis.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- ketoxime — (organic chemistry) Any oxime derived from an ketone; general formula R2C=NOH.
- keynoted — Music. the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded; the tonic.
- keynoter — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- keynotes — Plural form of keynote.
- keystone — the wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch, regarded as holding the other pieces in place.
- kilobyte — 1024 (2 10) bytes.
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- knothole — a hole in a board or plank formed by the falling out of a knot or a portion of a knot.
- knotweed — any of several knotty-stemmed plants belonging to the genus Polygonum, of the buckwheat family.
- koestler — Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.
- koheleth — the book of Ecclesiastes.
- kohoutek — a comet that passed around the sun in late 1973 and early 1974 and was barely visible with the naked eye.
- kookiest — Superlative form of kooky.
- kootenay — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kotzebue — August Friedrich Ferdinand von [ou-goo st free-drikh fer-di-nahnt fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt fən/ (Show IPA), 1761–1819, German dramatist.
- kowtowed — Simple past tense and past participle of kowtow.
- kowtower — One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- make out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.