8-letter words containing k, r, t
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- stunkard — sulky
- tack rag — a cotton cloth impregnated with an oil, used to remove dust from a surface prior to painting
- 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.
- taker-in — licker-in.
- 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)
- talukdar — a person in charge of a taluk
- tamarack — an American larch, Larix laricina, of the pine family, having a reddish-brown bark and crowded clusters of blue-green needles and yielding a useful timber.
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- tank car — Railroads. a car containing one or more tanks for the transportation of liquids, gases, or granular solids.
- tantrika — Also called Tantrist [tuhn-trist, tan-] /ˈtʌn trɪst, ˈtæn-/ (Show IPA). an adherent of Tantra.
- tarakihi — a common edible sea fish of New Zealand waters
- task bar — a row of buttons on a display screen that are clicked on to start software applications or switch between open applications or active windows.
- 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.
- telemark — a turn in which a skier places one ski far forward of the other and gradually angles the tip of the forward ski inward in the direction to be turned.
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- teriyaki — a dish of grilled slices of beef, chicken, or fish that have been marinated in soy sauce seasoned with sake, ginger, and sugar.
- the kirk — the Presbyterian Church of Scotland
- the mark — the middle of the stomach at or above the line made by the boxer's trunks
- the park — a soccer pitch
- the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- tickbird — any of various birds that feed on ticks, as an oxpecker.
- tidemark — the point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above: He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity.
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- tinkered — a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
- tinkerer — a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- 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.
- trackage — the whole quantity of track owned by a railroad.
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackman — a person who assists in inspecting, installing, or maintaining railroad tracks.
- trackpad — touchpad.
- trackway — railway (def 3).
- traiking — to become ill or lose one's good health.
- transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- traprock — trap3 .
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit
- treelike — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- trekking — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
- trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.