8-letter words containing s, o, r
- joyrides — Plural form of joyride.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- kerberos — Cerberus (def 1).
- kerosene — a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc.
- kerosine — Alternative spelling of kerosene.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knockers — a person or thing that knocks.
- koestler — Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.
- koshered — Simple past tense and past participle of kosher.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- kromesky — a croquette consisting of a piece of bacon wrapped round minced meat or fish
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- laborers — Plural form of laborer.
- laborism — a political theory favoring the dominance of labor in the economic and political life of a country.
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- ladrones — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- larksome — mischievous or fond of larking
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- layovers — Plural form of layover.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- licensor — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- literose — affectedly literary
- loadstar — a star that shows the way.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- lobsters — Plural form of lobster.
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- logrolls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of logroll.
- lombroso — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑˌrɛ/ (Show IPA), 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- loosener — Something that loosens.
- looters' — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- lordless — having no lord.
- lordoses — Plural form of lordosis.
- lordosis — Pathology. an abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, resulting in a swaybacked posture. Compare kyphosis, scoliosis.