8-letter words containing o, s, k
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- in stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- 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.
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
- inkhorns — Plural form of inkhorn.
- 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.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- 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.
- joystick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- junkshop — A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.
- 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).
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- 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.
- khaskovo — a city in S Bulgaria.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kickoffs — Plural form of kickoff.
- killjoys — Plural form of killjoy.
- kilobase — (in expressing the lengths of nucleic acid molecules) 1,000 bases.
- kilobits — Plural form of kilobit.
- kilotons — Plural form of kiloton.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- kinfolks — Plural form of kinfolk.
- kingdoms — Plural form of kingdom.
- kingpost — vertical post connecting the apex of a triangular roof truss to the tie beam
- kingston — an island in the West Indies, S of Cuba. 4413 sq. mi. (11,430 sq. km).