8-letter words containing r, a, k
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- havocker — a person who causes havoc
- hay rake — a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- headmark — a characteristic
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- heartake — Rare spelling of heartache.
- heketara — a small shrub, Olearia rani, which has flowers with white petals and yellow centres
- herakles — Hercules
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- horokaka — a New Zealand low-growing plant, Disphyma australe with fleshy leaves and pink or white flowers
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- jack rod — a horizontal metal rod or tube to which an awning or other cloth may be seized to support it.
- jack tar — a sailor.
- jack-tar — a sailor.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- jackeroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- jackyard — a small, inclined spar upholding the head of a quadrangular gaff topsail similar in form to a lugsail.
- jerkface — (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
- junk art — sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kaieteur — a waterfall in central Guyana, on a tributary of the Essequibo River. 741 feet (226 meters) high.
- kailyard — a kitchen garden.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kakariki — any of various green-feathered New Zealand parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kaleyard — a kitchen garden.
- kalyptra — a veil worn by women in Greece
- kamakura — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.
- kammerer — Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.