8-letter words containing k, o, r
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- rushwork — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- ryojunko — former Japanese name of Lüshun.
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- sex work — prostitution.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- sikorski — Władysław (ˈvlædɪslæf). 1881–1943, Polish general and statesman: prime minister (1922–23) and prime minister of the Polish government in exile during World War II: died in an air crash
- sikorsky — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1889–1972, U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skioring — the traditional sport of being dragged on skis behind an animal
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- skyborne — airborne.
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- sockeroo — a notable success: Her performance was a sockeroo.
- soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- take for — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- takeover — the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.
- takoradi — the chief port of Ghana, in the southwest on the Gulf of Guinea: modern harbour opened in 1928. Pop (with Sekondi): 335 000 (2005 est)
- taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- toymaker — a person who makes toys.
- traprock — trap3 .
- tryworks — the furnace and other apparatus, as on whaling ships in the past, used for rendering blubber into oil
- tubework — tubes collectively
- 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.