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8-letter words containing m, a, k

  • kalamata — Kalamata olive.
  • kalamdan — a Persian pen-box
  • kalimbas — Plural form of kalimba.
  • kalmykia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the NW shore of the Caspian Sea. 75,900 sq. mi. (196,581 sq. km). Capital: Elista.
  • kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
  • kamaaina — a longtime resident of Hawaii.
  • kamaboko — Any of various processed seafood products made from surimi, in which whitefish is pureed, formed into loaves, and steamed until firm.
  • kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
  • kamakura — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.
  • kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
  • kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • kammerer — Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide
  • kamokamo — a New Zealand marrow of the family Cucurbitaceae
  • kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
  • kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
  • kara kum — a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).
  • kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
  • kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
  • katmandu — a city in and the capital of Nepal, in the central part.
  • kaumatua — a senior member of a tribe; elder
  • keramics — ceramics.
  • keratoma — keratosis.
  • ketamine — a synthetic nonbarbiturate general anesthetic, C 13 H 16 ClNO, used to induce anesthesia, alone or in combination, in surgical or diagnostic procedures of short duration; extensively used in veterinary medicine.
  • keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
  • keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
  • khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
  • khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
  • khamseen — Alternative spelling of khamsin.
  • khansama — A male cook, who often also assumes the role of house steward.
  • khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
  • kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
  • kiamusze — Jiamusi.
  • kiasuism — self-serving, competitive, or greedy: parents who are kiasu about their children’s education.
  • kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
  • kineshma — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Nizhni Novgorod.
  • kingsman — (military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
  • kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
  • kirigami — the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.
  • kitemark — (British) A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards Institute, based on the letters BS.
  • klansman — a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • knifeman — A knifeman is someone who has attacked or killed someone with a knife.
  • kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
  • komitaji — a rebel or revolutionary belonging to a guerrilla group in Macedonia or the Balkans
  • koopmans — Tjalling Charles [chah-ling] /ˈtʃɑ lɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1910–85, U.S. economist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize 1975.
  • koriyama — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan.
  • kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
  • krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
  • kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
  • kumquats — Plural form of kumquat.
  • kymogram — the graphic record produced by a diagnostic kymograph.
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