8-letter words containing o, s, k, e
- forsaker — One who forsakes.
- forsakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forsake.
- forspeak — to bewitch
- gemsboks — Plural form of gemsbok.
- geoducks — Plural form of geoduck.
- ginkgoes — Plural form of ginkgo.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- gunsmoke — Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hooknose — a curved nose; aquiline nose.
- hosecock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- infoseek — (company) A company providing InfoSeek Net Search, a free web search service which, in August 1995, indexed the full text of over 400,000 web pages. Net Search was rated as the fourth most popular site on the web by Interactive Age magazine. The also sell a commercial service, InfoSeek Search, that offers access to all the Usenet news groups, daily newswires, business and computer periodicals, and more.
- inkstone — a slab of stone used in Chinese calligraphy and painting to grind dry ink and mix it with water.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- j-stroke — (in canoeing) a stroke, made in the shape of the letter J, used to alter the course of the canoe, usually to compensate for drifting sideways.
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- jokeless — Devoid of jokes.
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.
- jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
- jokiness — The state or condition of being joky.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- keelsons — Plural form of keelson.
- keeshond — one of a Dutch breed of small dogs having thick, silver-gray hair tipped with black and a tail carried over the back.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- kerberos — Cerberus (def 1).
- kerosene — a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc.
- kerosine — Alternative spelling of kerosene.
- keyholes — Plural form of keyhole.
- keynotes — Plural form of keynote.
- keystone — the wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch, regarded as holding the other pieces in place.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kilobase — (in expressing the lengths of nucleic acid molecules) 1,000 bases.
- knobbles — Plural form of knobble.
- knockers — a person or thing that knocks.
- knowsley — a unitary authority of NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 150 200 (2003 est). Area: 97 sq km (38 sq miles)