8-letter words containing n, k, o, s
- keystone — the wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch, regarded as holding the other pieces in place.
- kilotons — Plural form of kiloton.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- kinfolks — Plural form of kinfolk.
- kingdoms — Plural form of kingdom.
- kingpost — vertical post connecting the apex of a triangular roof truss to the tie beam
- kingston — an island in the West Indies, S of Cuba. 4413 sq. mi. (11,430 sq. km).
- kinsfolk — Alternative spelling of kinfolk.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knobbles — Plural form of knobble.
- knockers — a person or thing that knocks.
- knowbots — Plural form of knowbot.
- knowsley — a unitary authority of NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 150 200 (2003 est). Area: 97 sq km (38 sq miles)
- kokanees — Plural form of kokanee.
- kolinski — Alt form kolinsky.
- kolinsky — an Asian mink, Mustela sibirica, having buff or tawny fur.
- komensky — Jan Amos [Czech yahn ah-maws] /Czech yɑn ˈɑ mɔs/ (Show IPA), Comenius, John Amos.
- konstanz — German name of Constance.
- koopmans — Tjalling Charles [chah-ling] /ˈtʃɑ lɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1910–85, U.S. economist, born in the Netherlands: Nobel Prize 1975.
- kosinski — Jerzy [jur-zee,, yezh-ee] /ˈdʒɜr zi,, ˈyɛʒ i/ (Show IPA), 1933–91, U.S. novelist, born in Poland.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- lockings — Plural form of locking.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- misknown — Past participle of misknow.
- misknows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misknow.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- moleskin — the soft, deep-gray, fragile fur of the mole.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- mousekin — a little mouse
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- nainsook — a fine, soft-finished cotton fabric, usually white, used for lingerie and infants' wear.
- nakasone — Yasuhiro [yah-soo-hee-raw] /ˈyɑ sʊˈhi rɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1918, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1982–87.
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- nekrasov — Nikolai Alekseyevich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1821–77, Russian poet, who wrote chiefly about the sufferings of the peasantry
- networks — Plural form of network.
- no-stick — nonstick: a no-stick skillet.
- noisenik — a rock musician who performs loud harsh music
- non-sked — a nonscheduled airline or plane: He got his training with the nonskeds.
- nonbanks — Plural form of nonbank.
- nonbooks — Plural form of nonbook.
- nonskier — a person who does not ski
- nonstick — having or providing a finish designed to prevent food from sticking during cooking or baking: a nonstick saucepan; a nonstick cooking spray.
- nonstock — (business) Not issuing capital stock.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- oilskins — A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.