8-letter words containing t, r, o, k
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- keratoma — keratosis.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- keynoter — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knotroot — Chinese artichoke.
- knotwork — A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot.
- koestler — Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kortrijk — Flemish name of Courtrai.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kowtower — One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- 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.
- lakeport — a port city located on the shore of a lake, especially one of the Great Lakes.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- link rot — (web) The process by which links on a web page became unusable as the pages they point to change location or are removed.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano
- networks — Plural form of network.
- nyetwork — notwork
- offtrack — occurring or carried on away from a racetrack: offtrack betting.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- on track — heading for sth
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outskirt — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outtrick — to outdo in trickery
- outworks — Plural form of outwork.
- 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
- overtook — simple past tense of overtake.
- 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
- pinkroot — the root of any of various plants belonging to the genus Spigelia, of the logania family, especially that of S. marilandica of the U.S., that is used as a vermifuge.