8-letter words containing k, e, t
- tilelike — like a tile
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- tinkered — a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
- tinkerer — a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- toe pick — one of the sharp teeth in the front part of a figure-skating blade.
- tokening — something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
- tokenism — the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority.
- tomblike — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- toymaker — a person who makes toys.
- trackage — the whole quantity of track owned by a railroad.
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit
- treelike — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- trekking — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
- trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
- trickier — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- tricklet — a tiny trickle
- triskele — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- truckage — conveyance by a truck or trucks.
- tubework — tubes collectively
- tuckahoe — Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
- tuckered — to weary; tire; exhaust (often followed by out): The game tuckered him out.
- tunicked — wearing a tunic
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- tuskegee — a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute.
- tuskless — (in certain animals) a tooth developed to great length, usually one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar, but singly in the narwhal.
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- twerking — a provocative dance performed by moving the hips rapidly back and forth while standing with the feet apart and raising and lowering the body in a squatting motion
- tzedakah — charity or the giving of charity.
- unsocket — to remove from a socket
- untackle — to free from tackle or trappings; unfasten
- untucked — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- wackiest — Superlative form of wacky.
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- westlake — a city in N Ohio.
- westwork — (in German Romanesque architecture) a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above.
- wet dock — a dock accessible only around the time of high tide and entered through locks or gates.
- wet look — a shiny finish given to certain clothing and footwear materials, esp plastic and leather
- wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
- wetbacks — Plural form of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States.
- whitaker — a male given name.
- winnetka — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- wonkfest — A self-congratulatory meeting of wonks (overly studious individuals).
- wonkiest — Superlative form of wonky.