8-letter words containing k, e, y
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- greyback — grayback.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- hash key — the key on a keyboard or keypad
- hawk-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hay rake — a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- high-key — (of a photograph) having chiefly light tones, usually with little tonal contrast (distinguished from low-key).
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- home key — See under home row.
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- inkberry — Also called gallberry. a shrub, Ilex glabra, having leathery, evergreen leaves and black berries.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jockeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of jockey.
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kaleyard — a kitchen garden.
- katalyze — catalyze.
- kayakers — Plural form of kayaker.
- keepsaky — like or suitable for a keepsake, usually specifically of a volume of material made and given as a keepsake in the 19th century
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keighley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire: textile industry. Pop: 49 453 (2001)
- keneally — Thomas (Michael). born 1935, Australian writer. His novels include the Booker prizewinner Schindler's Ark (1982); other works are The Playmaker (1987), The Great Shame (1998), and The Woman and Her Hero (2007)
- kennelly — Arthur Edwin. 1861–1939, US electrical engineer: independently of Heaviside, he predicted the existence of an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere, known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer or E region
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
- kerensky — ˌAlekˈsanˌdr Feodoˈrovich (ˌɑljɛkˈsɑnˌdəʀ fjɔdɔˈrɔvɪtʃ) ; äˌlyeksänˈdər fy^ōˌd^ōr^ōˈvich) 1881-1970; Russ. revolutionary leader: prime minister of Russia (July-Nov., 1917), overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution: in the U.S. after 1940
- kernelly — with or like a kernel or kernels
- key card — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- key case — a small case in which keys are carried.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- key deer — a subspecies of miniature white-tailed deer, native to the Florida Keys, where the small remaining population is kept in preserves.
- key grip — the chief stagehand on a movie set.
- key lime — a yellow lime with a bitter rather than sour taste.
- key move — the correct initial move in the solution of a set problem
- key ring — a ring, usually of metal, for holding keys.
- key west — an island off S Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. 4 miles (6.4 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- keyclick — (computing) The sound produced by a keypress.
- keyed up — tense, nervous
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- keyholes — Plural form of keyhole.
- 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.