8-letter words containing k, e, t
- kibibyte — (computing) Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- kibitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibitz.
- kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
- kibitzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibitz.
- kilobyte — 1024 (2 10) bytes.
- kinetics — the branch of mechanics that deals with the actions of forces in producing or changing the motion of masses.
- kinglets — Plural form of kinglet.
- kinkiest — full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
- kirstein — Lincoln, 1907–96, U.S. dance authority and writer.
- kistvaen — cist2 .
- kitchens — Plural form of kitchen.
- kitelike — Resembling a kite (toy carried on the wind) or some aspect of one.
- kitemark — (British) A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards Institute, based on the letters BS.
- kitesurf — To take part in kitesurfing.
- kithless — (obsolete) Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family.
- kittened — Simple past tense and past participle of kitten.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- knitteth — Archaic third-person singular form of knit.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- 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.
- kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kuznetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- kvetched — Simple past tense and past participle of kvetch.
- kvetcher — to complain, especially chronically.
- kvetches — Plural form of kvetch.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lathlike — Resembling a lath or some aspect of one.
- leakiest — Superlative form of leaky.
- 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.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lentisks — Plural form of lentisk.
- 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.