8-letter words that end in k
- pot luck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- precheck — to check in advance
- prefrank — to frank in advance
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- put back — postpone
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- rag week — students' annual charity fundraiser
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- 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.
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- re-break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- reaphook — a sickle
- reattack — to attack (a country, person, etc) again
- red bank — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- red bark — a kind of cinchona containing a high proportion of alkaloids
- 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. - redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- restruck — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- returnik — a person returning or intending to return to his or her own country, esp the former Soviet Union
- rickrack — a narrow, zigzag braid or ribbon used as a trimming on clothing, linens, etc.
- rijswijk — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- rillmark — a mark or channel left by the trickle of a rill or brook
- rim lock — a lock nailed or screwed to one face of a door, gate, etc., as opposed to one built into its edge.
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- ringneck — a ring-necked animal.
- ringwork — a circular earthwork used as a defence and made up of a surrounding bank and ditch
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rockwork — stonework.
- roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- rollneck — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff