8-letter words containing r, a, k
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- framekit — (language) A frame language.
- frankest — Superlative form of frank.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- freakier — Comparative form of freaky.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- gavaskar — Sunil Manohar (ˈsʊnɪl ˈmænəʊhɑː). born 1949, Indian cricketer: played in 125 test matches (1971–87), 47 as captain; first batsman to score more than 10,000 test runs
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- grandkid — grandchild.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- grimdark — (fandom) Having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hairlike — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
- hallmark — an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths' Company of London; plate mark.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankerer — A person who hankers.
- harakeke — (NZ) flax, specifically Phormium tenax.
- harakiri — Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hardhack — a woolly-leaved North American shrub, Spiraea tomentosa, of the rose family, having short, spikelike clusters of rose-colored flowers.
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardrock — the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
- hardtack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- hashmark — character (#)
- hatmaker — a maker of hats
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.