8-letter words containing o, s, k, e
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stakeout — the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person.
- steenbok — a small antelope, Raphicerus campestris, of grassy areas of eastern and southern Africa.
- steinbok — steenbok.
- stenlock — a coal fish, Merlangus carbonarius
- stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- stockage — supplies
- stockest — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- stokesia — an American perennial plant, Stokesia laevis, known for its blue or purple flowers
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- the oaks — a horse race for fillies held annually at Epsom since 1779: one of the classics of English flat racing
- tokenism — the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority.
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unsmoked — (of meat, fish, etc) not hung over burning wood to preserve or flavour it
- unsoaked — not soaked
- unsocket — to remove from a socket
- unspoken — implied or understood without being spoken or uttered.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- velskoen — sturdy shoes of untanned hide, worn in South Africa
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- westwork — (in German Romanesque architecture) a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above.
- wonkfest — A self-congratulatory meeting of wonks (overly studious individuals).
- wonkiest — Superlative form of wonky.
- workless — Having no work: unemployed.
- worksafe — (of an internet link, etc) suitable for viewing in the workplace because of an absence of pornographic content
- worksite — a location used for work, especially construction or manual labor: industrial worksites; tobacco-free worksites.
- worksome — hard-working, industrious
- workwise — In terms of work.
- yesilkoy — a town in Turkey, near Istanbul.
- yokeless — Without a yoke.
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.
- younkers — Plural form of younker.
- zelkovas — Plural form of zelkova.