8-letter words containing k, e, t
- parakite — a series of linked kites used to attain higher altitudes
- parkette — a small park, usually open to the public and containing amenities like benches and children's play facilities.
- parroket — parakeet.
- partaken — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- partaker — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- pep talk — a vigorous, emotional talk, as to a person or group, intended to arouse enthusiasm, increase determination to succeed, etc.: The coach gave the team a pep talk before the game.
- picketed — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
- pickiest — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- pink tea — a formal tea or reception.
- pinkster — Whitsuntide.
- pithlike — similar to pith
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- pocketer — a person who pockets something
- poetlike — resembling a poet
- pokeroot — pokeweed
- potemkin — Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich [gri-gawr-ee al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1739–91, Russian statesman and favorite of Catherine II.
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- racketer — a person who makes a racket
- racketry — noise and commotion
- radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
- reattack — to attack (a country, person, etc) again
- red kite — a large, rare, bird of prey, Milvus milvus, of parts of Europe and Africa: family Accipitridae
- rejacket — a new covering or jacket, esp for a book
- remarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- 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.
- retackle — to tackle again
- returnik — a person returning or intending to return to his or her own country, esp the former Soviet Union
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- rocketer — a game bird such as a pheasant that launches itself into the air like a rocket after it is forced to take flight, for example by a dog
- rocketry — the science of rocket design, development, and flight.
- rootlike — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seek out — search, hunt
- set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- setbacks — a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge