8-letter words containing k, o, r, n
- onlooker — spectator; observer; witness.
- openwork — any kind of work, especially ornamental, as of embroidery, lace, metal, stone, or wood, having a latticelike nature or showing openings through its substance.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
- overkeen — too keen
- overkind — too kind
- overking — a supreme king
- overknee — reaching to above the knee
- overrank — to assign an unnecessarily high rank to
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
- reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reckoner — a person who reckons.
- reinvoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- ringwork — a circular earthwork used as a defence and made up of a surrounding bank and ditch
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- rockling — any of several small cods of the genera Enchalyopus and Gaidropsarus, found in the North Atlantic.
- rollneck — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- ryojunko — former Japanese name of Lüshun.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skioring — the traditional sport of being dragged on skis behind an animal
- skyborne — airborne.
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turncock — (formerly) an official employed to turn on the water for the mains supply
- unbroken — not broken; whole; intact.
- unforked — not forked
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unworked — not worked; not used; not exerted
- workings — Plural form of working.
- yorktown — a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.
- younkers — Plural form of younker.
- zworykin — Vladimir Kosma [vlad-uh-meer koz-muh] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈkɒz mə/ (Show IPA), 1889–1982, U.S. physicist, engineer, and inventor, born in Russia: known as the “father of television.”.