8-letter words containing s, k, e
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- hekhsher — hechsher.
- helpdesk — Alternative spelling of help desk.
- helsinki — Finnish Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Capital: Helsinki.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- henpecks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henpeck.
- herakles — Hercules
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hooknose — a curved nose; aquiline nose.
- hosecock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hot-desk — If employees hot-desk, they are not assigned particular desks and work at any desk that is available.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- ickiness — repulsive or distasteful.
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- 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.
- inkiness — The condition of being inky.
- inkstone — a slab of stone used in Chinese calligraphy and painting to grind dry ink and mix it with water.
- inkwells — Plural form of inkwell.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- insucken — relating to, or situated within, a sucken
- 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.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jerkings — Plural form of jerking.
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jokeless — Devoid of jokes.
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.
- jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
- jokiness — The state or condition of being joky.
- k-series — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- kara sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and the N Russian Federation.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- katalase — catalase.
- kayakers — Plural form of kayaker.
- kedushah — a liturgical prayer of varying form that is incorporated into the third blessing of the Amidah during the repetition of this prayer by the cantor.
- keelless — having no keel, as a ship.