8-letter words containing k, l
- ink ball — one of a pair of heavy pads of horsehair and cotton covered with sheepskin or buckskin and equipped with a handle, used before the invention of the ink roller for dabbing ink on type for printing.
- ink blot — a stain on paper, made by ink
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
- inklings — Plural form of inkling.
- inkwells — Plural form of inkwell.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- jaywalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk.
- jazzlike — (music) Resembling jazz.
- jokeless — Devoid of jokes.
- jokingly — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- joktaleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- junkpile — A pile of junk; a scrapheap.
- jutelike — resembling jute
- kabbalah — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- kabeljou — a large marine sciaenid fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus, that is an important food fish of South African waters
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kabloona — a white man; a European.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kailyard — a kitchen garden.
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kalamata — Kalamata olive.
- kalamdan — a Persian pen-box
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kalevala — (italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- kaleyard — a kitchen garden.
- kalidasa — flourished 5th century a.d, Hindu dramatist and poet.
- kalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kalimbas — Plural form of kalimba.
- kalinite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of potassium and aluminum, chemically similar to alum.
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kaliyuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- kallidin — a peptide in blood plasma that dilates blood vessels and causes contraction of smooth muscles
- kallikak — the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a sociological study: one branch of feeble-minded descendants were mostly social degenerates, while another branch with descendants of normal intelligence were mostly successful.
- kalliope — calliope (def 2).
- kallisto — Callisto (def 1).
- kalmykia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the NW shore of the Caspian Sea. 75,900 sq. mi. (196,581 sq. km). Capital: Elista.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- kalyptra — a veil worn by women in Greece
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kaoliang — a variety of grain sorghum.
- karaklis — former name of Kirovakan.
- karakuls — Plural form of karakul.