8-letter words containing k, r, t
- radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- 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.
- reattack — to attack (a country, person, etc) again
- red kite — a large, rare, bird of prey, Milvus milvus, of parts of Europe and Africa: family Accipitridae
- rejacket — a new covering or jacket, esp for a book
- remarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- resketch — to sketch again
- restrike — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- restruck — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- retackle — to tackle again
- returnik — a person returning or intending to return to his or her own country, esp the former Soviet Union
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- rib-knit — (of a knitted garment or fabric) having a pattern of ribs: a rib-knit sweater.
- rink rat — a youth who spends a great deal of time at a hockey rink, helping with maintenance work, sweeping, etc., often without pay or in return for free admission to the rink.
- rock art — painting or engraving on rock
- rock out — listen enthusiastically to pop music
- 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.
- 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.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- 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.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skirting — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- skittery — skittish.
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- starkers — naked
- starkest — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- streaker — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streeker — to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.