8-letter words containing o, k, l, a
- oak lawn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- oak leaf — the leaf of an oak tree
- oak wilt — a disease of oaks, characterized by wilting and discoloration of the leaves and defoliation, usually starting at and spreading from the top of the tree and the ends of the branches, caused by a fungus, Chalara quercina.
- oakville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
- oarlocks — Plural form of oarlock.
- oil cake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- oil tank — any tank for containing or storing oil such as a very large oil storage container at a refinery; a large oil storage area on an oil tanker; or a smaller container for the storage of heating oil at a property
- oklahoma — a state in the S central U.S. 69,919 sq. mi. (181,090 sq. km). . Capital: Oklahoma City. Abbreviation: OK (for use with zip code), Okla.
- old talk — (chat) The old implementations of talk. See "ntalk" for details.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- 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.
- 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)
- roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockfall — an act or instance of the falling of rock, as in a cave-in or an avalanche.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- souvlaki — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- talk out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- volkmann — (Friedrich) Robert, 1815–83, German composer.
- walk off — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk out — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-off — a person who escapes easily, especially by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.
- walk-out — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walkdown — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- walkouts — Plural form of walkout.
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- warlocks — Plural form of warlock.
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woodlark — a small, European songbird, Lullula arborea, noted for its song in flight.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
- woolsack — a sack or bag of wool.
- workable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workably — In an workable fashion.
- workload — the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.
- yolk sac — an extraembryonic membrane that encloses the yolk of eggs in birds, reptiles, and marsupials and that circulates nourishment from the yolk to the developing embryo.
- zelkovas — Plural form of zelkova.