8-letter words containing k, o, r, i
- froglike — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
- gridwork — Work in the form of a grid.
- gritrock — Gritstone.
- grokking — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
- herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- inkhorns — Plural form of inkhorn.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- ironwork — work in iron.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- karoline — a female given name.
- karyotin — chromatin
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- kerosine — Alternative spelling of kerosene.
- killcrop — a baby that is always hungry, thought to be a fairy changeling
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kohinoor — an Indian diamond weighing 106 carats; now part of the British crown jewels.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kompiler — (language) An early system on the IBM 701. Versions: KOMPILER 2 for IBM 701, KOMPILER 3 for IBM 704.
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- koriyama — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan.
- koromiko — a flowering New Zealand shrub, Hebe salicifolia
- kortrijk — Flemish name of Courtrai.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- linework — (arts) The technique of drawing lines.
- link rot — (web) The process by which links on a web page became unusable as the pages they point to change location or are removed.
- linkwork — something composed of links, as a chain.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- low-risk — A low-risk customer, risk, occupation, or property is not very likely to be exposed to a danger.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- monicker — a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.