8-letter words containing k, m, e
- framekit — (language) A frame language.
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gamelike — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gemsboks — Plural form of gemsbok.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunsmoke — Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hatmaker — a maker of hats
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- headmark — a characteristic
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- home key — See under home row.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- ice milk — a frozen food similar to ice cream but made with skim milk.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- impocket — to put in a pocket
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.
- kakemono — a vertical hanging scroll containing either text or a painting, intended to be viewed on a wall and rolled when not in use.
- kakiemon — a Japanese porcelain design credited to Kakiemon Sakaida, first produced in the 17th century and widely collected and imitated in the West
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
- kammerer — Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide
- kemerovo — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, NE of Novosibirsk.
- kemijoki — the longest river in Finland, flowing SW from Lapland to the Gulf of Bothnia. 345 miles (555 km) long.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keratoma — keratosis.
- kermises — Plural form of kermis.
- ketamine — a synthetic nonbarbiturate general anesthetic, C 13 H 16 ClNO, used to induce anesthesia, alone or in combination, in surgical or diagnostic procedures of short duration; extensively used in veterinary medicine.
- ketimine — (organic chemistry) An imine derived from a ketone; general formula R2C=NR.
- ketoxime — (organic chemistry) Any oxime derived from an ketone; general formula R2C=NOH.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- 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
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khamseen — Alternative spelling of khamsin.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kiamusze — Jiamusi.
- kilomole — one thousand moles
- kimberly — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.