8-letter words containing o, a, k, r
- horokaka — a New Zealand low-growing plant, Disphyma australe with fleshy leaves and pink or white flowers
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- jack rod — a horizontal metal rod or tube to which an awning or other cloth may be seized to support it.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackeroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kangaroo — any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- karoline — a female given name.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- karyotin — chromatin
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- 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.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- 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.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kordofan — a province in the central Sudan. About 147,000 sq. mi. (380,730 sq. km). Capital: El Obeid.
- korfball — (uncountable) A non-contact unisex team sport originating from Holland, similar to netball, where players attempt to throw a ball into a basket atop a pole.
- 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.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kymogram — the graphic record produced by a diagnostic kymograph.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- larksome — mischievous or fond of larking
- lathwork — work made of laths
- laverock — a lark, especially a skylark.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lokacara — an action in accordance with socially accepted rules.
- makarova — Natalia [nuh-tal-yuh,, -tahl-;; Russian nuh-tah-lyuh] /nəˈtæl yə,, -ˈtɑl-;; Russian nʌˈtɑ lyə/ (Show IPA), born 1940, Soviet ballerina, in the U.S. and England since 1970.
- make for — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.