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8-letter words containing k, r, o

  • rake-off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
  • ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
  • re-evoke — to evoke again
  • reaphook — a sickle
  • reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reckoner — a person who reckons.
  • red book — 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Green Book, and the White Book. 2.   (publication)   Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has blue and green siblings. 3. Any of the 1984 standards issued by the ITU-T eighth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 electronic mail specification, the Group 1 through 4 fax standards, ISDN, the R2 signalling system (Q.400 series recommendations), data communication via the PSTN (the V series recommendations) and tariffs and metering principles (the D series). 4. The new version of the Green Book - IEEE 1003.1-1990, also known as ISO 9945-1 - is (because of the colour and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the USA. as "the Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf" and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA "Trusted Network Interpretation" companion to the Orange Book. See also book titles.
  • reinvoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
  • rickover — Hyman George, 1900–86, U.S. naval officer, born in Poland: helped to develop the nuclear submarine.
  • rim lock — a lock nailed or screwed to one face of a door, gate, etc., as opposed to one built into its edge.
  • rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
  • ringwork — a circular earthwork used as a defence and made up of a surrounding bank and ditch
  • roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
  • rock art — painting or engraving on rock
  • rock cod — rockfish (defs 1–3).
  • rock elm — an elm, Ulmus thomasii, of eastern North America, having deeply furrowed, grayish-brown bark.
  • rock oil — petroleum.
  • rock out — listen enthusiastically to pop music
  • rock-eel — rock blenny.
  • rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
  • rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
  • rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
  • rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
  • rocketer — a game bird such as a pheasant that launches itself into the air like a rocket after it is forced to take flight, for example by a dog
  • rocketry — the science of rocket design, development, and flight.
  • rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
  • rockfall — an act or instance of the falling of rock, as in a cave-in or an avalanche.
  • rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
  • rockford — a city in N Illinois.
  • rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • rockless — lacking rocks
  • rocklike — Something that is rocklike is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change.
  • rockling — any of several small cods of the genera Enchalyopus and Gaidropsarus, found in the North Atlantic.
  • rockrose — any plant of the genus Cistus or some allied genus, as Helianthemum.
  • rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
  • rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
  • rockwork — stonework.
  • roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
  • rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
  • rollicky — rollicking or merry
  • rollneck — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
  • rollocks — rowlock.
  • room key — A room key is a key given to a guest in a hotel in order to open or lock the door of their room.
  • roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
  • rootlike — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
  • ropelike — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
  • ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
  • ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
  • roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
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