8-letter words containing o, k, t, a
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hakafoth — 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.
- hakodate — a seaport on S Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- halakoth — Halakhah.
- hot cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hot take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- joktaleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- 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.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kallisto — Callisto (def 1).
- kantikoy — a ceremonial dance of some Native American tribes, often involving sacrifices
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- karyotin — chromatin
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.
- 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.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- kitasato — Shibasaburo [shee-bah-sah-boo-raw] /ʃiˈbɑ sɑˈbu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kola nut — a brownish seed, about the size of a chestnut, produced by a tropical tree belonging to the genus Cola, containing both caffeine and theobromine: its extract is used in soft drinks.
- komitaji — a rebel or revolutionary belonging to a guerrilla group in Macedonia or the Balkans
- konstanz — German name of Constance.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kootenay — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lokayata — a materialistic school of philosophers in India that opposed Hinduism by regarding only matter as real, sense data as the only source of knowledge, and the gratification of the appetites as the only good.
- make out — 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.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.