8-letter words containing s, a, k, r
- kristina — a female given name, form of Christina.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kursaals — Plural form of kursaal.
- larksome — mischievous or fond of larking
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- makassar — a former name of Ujung Pandang.
- markhors — Plural form of markhor.
- markings — Plural form of marking.
- marksman — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- marksmen — Plural form of marksman.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- meerkats — Plural form of meerkat.
- mistaker — One who mistakes.
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- namaskar — Respectful greetings.
- nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
- nekrasov — Nikolai Alekseyevich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1821–77, Russian poet, who wrote chiefly about the sufferings of the peasantry
- oarlocks — Plural form of oarlock.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- 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.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- rakshasa — a demon in Hindu mythology
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- 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.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- satyrisk — a small satyr