8-letter words containing t, o, k, a
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- oak wilt — a disease of oaks, characterized by wilting and discoloration of the leaves and defoliation, usually starting at and spreading from the top of the tree and the ends of the branches, caused by a fungus, Chalara quercina.
- oatcakes — Plural form of oatcake.
- offtrack — occurring or carried on away from a racetrack: offtrack betting.
- oil tank — any tank for containing or storing oil such as a very large oil storage container at a refinery; a large oil storage area on an oil tanker; or a smaller container for the storage of heating oil at a property
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- old talk — (chat) The old implementations of talk. See "ntalk" for details.
- on track — heading for sth
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- out-take — a segment of film or videotape edited out of the final version, as because of a technical error.
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outskate — (ice hockey, skating) To skate better than another skater.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outtakes — Plural form of outtake.
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- overtake — to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- parroket — parakeet.
- partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
- plankton — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- post oak — any of several American oaks, especially Quercus stellata, the wood of which is used for posts.
- 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.
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- 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.
- rock art — painting or engraving on rock
- sack out — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- shotokan — a popular system of karate based on the principles of Bushido and Zen
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- soak out — to draw out (dirt, etc.) by or as by soaking
- softback — paperback book
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- stakeout — the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person.
- stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- stockage — supplies