7-letter words containing o, k, a
- hack on — To hack; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might hack up.
- haddock — a North Atlantic food fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the cod family.
- hakafot — a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times.
- hammock — hummock (def 1).
- hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- hapkido — An eclectic Korean martial art founded by Young Sul Choi, a student of Dait\u014d-ry\u016b Aiki-j\u016bjutsu.
- hassock — a thick, firm cushion used as a footstool or for kneeling.
- hattock — a small hat
- haycock — a small conical pile of hay stacked in a hayfield while the hay is awaiting removal to a barn.
- hayfork — a forklike tool for pitching hay.
- hoecake — an unleavened cake made with flour or corn meal: originally baked on a hoe but now usually cooked on a griddle.
- hogback — a long, sharply crested ridge, generally formed of steeply inclined strata that are especially resistant to erosion.
- hohokam — of, belonging to, or characteristic of an American Indian culture of the central and southern deserts of Arizona, about a.d. 450–1450, roughly contemporaneous with the Anasazi culture to the north.
- hokiang — Older Spelling. Hejiang.
- hokusai — Katsushika [kah-tsoo-shee-kah] /ˈkɑ tsʊˈʃi kɑ/ (Show IPA), 1760–1849, Japanese painter and illustrator.
- hookahs — Plural form of hookah.
- hopsack — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hotcake — A pancake.
- hoylake — a town and resort in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside, on the Irish Sea. Pop: 25 524 (2001)
- ilokano — Ilocano.
- jack of — tired or fed up with (something)
- jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- jackson — a state in the S United States. 47,716 sq. mi. (123,585 sq. km). Capital: Jackson. Abbreviation: MS (for use with zip code), Miss.
- jannock — honest; fair; straightforward.
- judokas — Plural form of judoka.
- kachori — An Indian snack of flour with beans and spices.
- kaesong — a city in S North Korea.
- kakapos — Plural form of kakapo.
- kalooki — a form of rummy played with two packs of cards
- kalypso — Calypso (def 1).
- kampong — a small village or community of houses in Malay-speaking lands.
- kaneohe — a town on E Oahu, in Hawaii.
- kao tsu — (Kao TsuorGao Zu) a.d. 565–635, Chinese emperor 618–27: founder of the Tang dynasty.
- kaolack — a city in W Senegal.
- kaoline — Alternative spelling of kaolin.
- karaoke — an act of singing along to a music video, especially one from which the original vocals have been electronically eliminated.
- karengo — an edible Pacific seaweed, Porphyra columbina
- karloff — Boris (William Henry Pratt) 1887–1969, British actor in the U.S.
- karoshi — (in Japan) death caused by overwork
- katorga — the system of labour camps in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, a precursor to the Gulag system
- kawagoe — a city in central Honshu, Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- kayoing — Present participle of kayo.
- keitloa — a variety of the black rhinoceros having the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.
- kelowna — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kerato- — indicating horn or a horny substance
- kerouac — Jack (Jean-Louis Lefris de Kérouac) 1922–69, U.S. novelist.
- kharkov — a city in NE Ukraine: former capital of Ukraine.
- khoisan — a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San and the Khoikhoi.
- khorana — Har Gobind [hahr goh-bind] /hɑr ˈgoʊ bɪnd/ (Show IPA), 1922–2011, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.