8-letter words containing k, o, t
- kootenay — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kortrijk — Flemish name of Courtrai.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kotowing — Present participle of kotow.
- kotzebue — August Friedrich Ferdinand von [ou-goo st free-drikh fer-di-nahnt fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt fən/ (Show IPA), 1761–1819, German dramatist.
- kowtowed — Simple past tense and past participle of kowtow.
- kowtower — One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- 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.
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- lobstick — lopstick.
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockbolt — A fastener in the form of a pin fitted with a collar placed over the locking bolt.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- lokayata — a materialistic school of philosophers in India that opposed Hinduism by regarding only matter as real, sense data as the only source of knowledge, and the gratification of the appetites as the only good.
- look out — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lookouts — Plural form of lookout.
- looksist — Forming prejudices based on a person's physical appearance.
- lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- luck out — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- make out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- mopstick — a mop handle
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- muck out — clear out: animal's living quarters