8-letter words containing ki
- gleeking — to make a joke; jest.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- god-king — a human sovereign believed to be a deity or to have godlike attributes.
- grandkid — grandchild.
- greeking — greek
- grokking — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- hanukiah — a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah
- harakiri — Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
- hellkite — a fiendishly cruel and wicked person.
- 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.
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- hezekiah — a king of Judah of the 7th and 8th centuries b.c. II Kings 18.
- hit-skip — hit-and-run (defs 1, 2).
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- hokinson — Helen, c1900–49, U.S. cartoonist.
- hsinking — Older Spelling. former name of Changchun.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- ickiness — repulsive or distasteful.
- ii kings — (in versions based on the Hebrew, including the Authorized Version) one of the two books recounting the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel
- inkiness — The condition of being inky.
- intaking — Present participle of intake.
- invoking — Present participle of invoke.
- jerkings — Plural form of jerking.
- jirkinet — a jacket or bodice worn by women
- jokiness — The state or condition of being joky.
- jokingly — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- jongkind — Johann Barthold (joːˈhɑn ˈbartɔlt). 1819–91, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, working in Paris: best known for his atmospheric seascapes
- kaitiaki — (NZ) The M\u0101ori concept of guardianship of the natural environment.
- kakariki — any of various green-feathered New Zealand parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus
- kakiemon — a Japanese porcelain design credited to Kakiemon Sakaida, first produced in the 17th century and widely collected and imitated in the West
- kakinada — a port city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India.
- kalmykia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the NW shore of the Caspian Sea. 75,900 sq. mi. (196,581 sq. km). Capital: Elista.
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- kayaking — an Eskimo canoe with a skin cover on a light framework, made watertight by flexible closure around the waist of the occupant and propelled with a double-bladed paddle.
- kemijoki — the longest river in Finland, flowing SW from Lapland to the Gulf of Bothnia. 345 miles (555 km) long.
- kerenski — Aleksandr Feodorovich [uh-lyi-ksahn-dr fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1970, Russian revolutionary leader: premier 1917; in the U.S. after 1946.
- kia kaha — be strong!
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- kiamusze — Jiamusi.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kiasuism — self-serving, competitive, or greedy: parents who are kiasu about their children’s education.
- kibbling — Present participle of kibble.
- kibibyte — (computing) Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- kibitkas — Plural form of kibitka.
- kibitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibitz.
- kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
- kibitzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibitz.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kick ass — strikingly or overwhelmingly tough, aggressive, powerful, or effective: He finally built himself a kick-ass computer.