8-letter words containing ok
- movieoke — an entertainment in which people take it in turns, with the help of subtitles and the audience, to act out well-known scenes from movies while they are silently shown in the background
- myokymia — twitching of individual segments of a muscle.
- nainsook — a fine, soft-finished cotton fabric, usually white, used for lingerie and infants' wear.
- neckyoke — A yoke which touches or surrounds the carrier's neck, rather then just resting on the shoulders.
- new look — a new or changed appearance, approach, etc., especially one characterized by marked departure from the previous or traditional one.
- nonbooks — Plural form of nonbook.
- nooklike — resembling a nook
- notebook — a book of or for notes.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- okanagan — a river in North America that flows south from Okanagan Lake in Canada into the Columbia River in NE Washington, US Length: about 483 km (300 miles)
- okavango — a river in central Africa, flowing SE from Angola to Botswana. About 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- okinagan — a member of a North American Indian people living in the Okanagan River valley in British Columbia and Washington
- oklahoma — a state in the S central U.S. 69,919 sq. mi. (181,090 sq. km). . Capital: Oklahoma City. Abbreviation: OK (for use with zip code), Okla.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- okovango — a river in central Africa, flowing SE from Angola to Botswana. About 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- onlooker — spectator; observer; witness.
- outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
- outlooks — Plural form of outlook.
- outsmoke — to smoke more than
- outspoke — Simple past form of outspeak.
- overbook — to accept reservations for in excess of the number that can be accommodated: The airline routinely overbooks its flights so as to fill its planes even if there are last-minute cancellations.
- overcook — Cook too much or for too long.
- overlook — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- overtook — simple past tense of overtake.
- parroket — parakeet.
- passbook — a bankbook.
- pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
- piblokto — a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Eskimo women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit.
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- pokeroot — pokeweed
- pokeweed — a tall herb, Phytolacca americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in medicine, and young edible shoots resembling asparagus.
- pollbook — the official list of the registered voters in a given area.
- pornaoke — an entertainment in which members of an audience emit lustful utterances in synchronization with those seen on a pornographic film played silently on a large screen
- pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
- provoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- provoker — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
- re-evoke — to evoke again
- reaphook — a sickle
- red book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Green Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has blue and green siblings. 3. Any of the 1984 standards issued by the ITU-T eighth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 electronic mail specification, the Group 1 through 4 fax standards, ISDN, the R2 signalling system (Q.400 series recommendations), data communication via the PSTN (the V series recommendations) and tariffs and metering principles (the D series). 4. The new version of the Green Book - IEEE 1003.1-1990, also known as ISO 9945-1 - is (because of the colour and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the USA. as "the Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf" and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA "Trusted Network Interpretation" companion to the Orange Book. See also book titles. - reinvoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shizuoka — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Suruga Bay.
- shook up — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shook-up — upset
- 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.
- skokiaan — (in South Africa) a potent alcoholic beverage drunk by Black Africans in shebeens