8-letter words containing k, t, r
- karateka — an expert in karate.
- karlstad — a city in S Sweden.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- karyotin — chromatin
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- katsuras — Plural form of katsura.
- keiretsu — (especially in Japan) a loose coalition of business groups.
- keisters — Plural form of keister.
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- keratoma — keratosis.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- kestrels — Plural form of kestrel.
- keynoter — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
- kiribati — a republic in the central Pacific Ocean, on the equator, comprising 33 islands. 263 sq. mi. (681 sq. km). Capital: Tarawa.
- kirstein — Lincoln, 1907–96, U.S. dance authority and writer.
- kitemark — (British) A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards Institute, based on the letters BS.
- kitesurf — To take part in kitesurfing.
- kitharas — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- knotroot — Chinese artichoke.
- knotwork — A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot.
- koestler — Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kortrijk — Flemish name of Courtrai.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kowtower — One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- krakatau — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- kristina — a female given name, form of Christina.
- 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.
- kvetcher — to complain, especially chronically.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- 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.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- marketed — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketer — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- meerkats — Plural form of meerkat.