8-letter words containing o, k, a
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- overbake — (transitive) To bake for too long.
- overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overpark — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
- overrack — to strain too much
- overrake — (of water) to break over the bow of (a ship) in a solid mass.
- overrank — to assign an unnecessarily high rank to
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overtake — to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overweak — too weak
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pack off — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- parroket — parakeet.
- partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
- passbook — a bankbook.
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- peekaboo — Also called bo-peep. a game played by or with very young children, typically in which one covers the face or hides and then suddenly uncovers the face or reappears, calling “Peekaboo!”.
- peekapoo — one of a variety of dogs crossbred from a Pekingese and a miniature poodle.
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- post oak — any of several American oaks, especially Quercus stellata, the wood of which is used for posts.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
- rack off — to go away; depart
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
- rake off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rake-off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- reaphook — a sickle
- roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rock art — painting or engraving on rock
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.