8-letter words containing o, s, k
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- oarlocks — Plural form of oarlock.
- oatcakes — Plural form of oatcake.
- obelisks — Plural form of obelisk.
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- ockodols — one's feet when wearing boots
- off sick — If you are off sick, you are not at work because you are ill.
- oilskins — A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- oldskool — Adhering to an original field of practice.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- olykoeks — doughnut.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- out sick — If you are out sick, you are not at work because you are sick.
- outlooks — Plural form of outlook.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outskate — (ice hockey, skating) To skate better than another skater.
- outskirt — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outslick — to outsmart
- outsmoke — to smoke more than
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outspoke — Simple past form of outspeak.
- outtakes — Plural form of outtake.
- outworks — Plural form of outwork.
- oversick — too sick
- overskip — to skip over
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- passbook — a bankbook.
- penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- 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)
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- post oak — any of several American oaks, especially Quercus stellata, the wood of which is used for posts.
- postmark — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postpunk — of or related to a style of music that followed punk rock
- pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
- ratatosk — An SLR parser generator written in Gofer (a Haskell variant) by Torben AEgidius Mogensen <[email protected]>. Ratatosk generates purely functional backtracking LR0 grammar parsers (also in Gofer). Even though the sematic value of a production is a function of the attributes of its right-hand side (and thus apparently purely synthesised), inherited attributes are easily simulated by using higher-order functions.
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rockless — lacking rocks
- rockrose — any plant of the genus Cistus or some allied genus, as Helianthemum.