8-letter words containing k, o, r
- brooklyn — a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
- brookner — Anita. 1928–2016, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- cerenkov — Pavel A [pah-vuh l;; Russian pah-vyil] /ˈpɑ vəl;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl/ (Show IPA), 1904–1990, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1958.
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- checkrow — a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
- cherokee — a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
- chickory — Alternative spelling of chicory.
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- clockers — Plural form of clocker.
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- cockbird — a male bird
- cockcrow — daybreak
- cockered — to pamper: to cocker a child.
- cockerel — A cockerel is a young male chicken.
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- cocksure — Someone who is cocksure is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.
- cokernut — coconut.
- coldwork — The elimination of flaws and rough or sharp areas on the surface of blown or cast glass objects; usually achieved by some combination of grinding and polishing.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- cookroom — a room in which food is cooked
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- cordlike — a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- cork elm — any of several tall elms (genus Ulmus) of the E U.S., with corky ridges, as wahoo
- cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
- corklike — Resembling a cork or some aspect of one.
- corktree — type of evergreen oak tree
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corkwood — a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae
- cormlike — resembling a corm
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- cornsilk — The fine threadlike styles on an ear of corn.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- coworker — Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crankous — fretful; cranky