8-Letter Words Starting with K

All 117 eight-letter words that start with K

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• kakamega19n. The grey-chested babbler (Kakamega poliothorax).
• kalamata14n. Kalamata olive.
• kalendar13n. A liturgical calendar.
• kamacite16n. A meteoritic mineral which consists chiefly of iron and nickel.
• kamikaze27n. An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially...
• kamuning15n. Orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata).
• kangaroo13n. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong...
• kanzashi24n. An ornamental hairpin; hair ornament.
• kaoliang13n. A sorghum-based variety of baijiu.
• karambit16n. A small, curved Southeast Asian knife resembling a Sumatran tiger's...
• karateka16n. A practitioner of karate.
• katakana16n. A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign...
• katamari14n. Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.
• katsudon13n. A Japanese dish of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet, egg...
• kawakawa22n. A false albacore, a fish of species Euthynnus affinis.
• kayaking20n. A water sport involving racing, or doing tricks in, a kayak.

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• kedgeree14n. An Anglo-Indian dish of flaked, smoked haddock, eggs and rice.
• keelback20n. Any of various colubrid snakes of the subfamily Natricinae, whose...
• keelboat14n. Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).
• keelhaul15v. To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship with the intent of...
• keenness12n. Sharpness or cutting ability.
• keepsake18n. An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or...
• keffiyeh24n. An Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by...
• kehillah18n. A type of Jewish community in eastern Europe.
• keiretsu12n. A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships...
• kemosabe16n. An appellation given to a wise, trustworthy friend.
• kenjutsu19n. Japanese swordsmanship.
• kerbside15n. The side of the road, along which a kerb runs.
• kerchief20n. A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
• kerching18interj. Suggesting the arrival of a large amount of money.
• kerosene12n. A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel...
• kerplunk18n. A sound of someone or something falling and landing heavily.
• ketamine14n. A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic...
• kettling13n. A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of...
• keyboard18n. A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a...
• keychain20n. A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
• keyframe20n. A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between...
• keymaker21n. One who makes keys.
• keynoter15n. A speaker who delivers the keynote speech of a conference.
• keypoint17n. Part of a valley where the lower and flatter portion of the primary...
• keypress17n. The depression of an input key.
• keypunch22n. A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in...
• keyspace19n. The notional space that contains all possible cryptographic keys.
• keystone15n. The top stone of an arch.
• keystore15n. A storage area for cryptographic keys.

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• khilafat18n. Caliphate.

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• kibitzer23n. A person who offers unsolicited views, advice, or criticism; one who...
• kickable20adj. Capable or deserving of being kicked.
• kickback26n. A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
• kickball20n. A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is...
• kickflip23n. An ollie where the board is rotated 360 degrees along its axis.
• kidswear16n. Childrenswear.
• kielbasa14n. A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.
• kigurumi15n. A full-body costume of a cartoon character (typically a mascot of...
• kilobase14n. A length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides...
• kilobyte17n. One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
• kilogram15n. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived...
• kilovolt15n. One thousand volts. Symbol: kV or KV.
• kilowatt15n. One thousand (10³) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such...
• kindling14n. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
• kindness13n. The state of being kind.
• kinetics14n. The branch of mechanics concerned with motion of objects, as well as...
• kingbird16n. Any of various large insectivorous tyrant-flycatchers of the genus...
• kingfish19n. Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic...
• kingship18n. The dignity, rank, or office of a king; the state of being a king.
• kingside14n. The side of the chessboard nearest to the king (at the opening...
• kingsman15n. The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the...
• kingston13n. Monkfish, angel shark (Squatina squatina).
• kingwood17n. Dalbergia cearensis, a Brazilian tree having a violet-brown, hard...
• kinkajou23n. Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America...
• kintsugi13n. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or...
• kippered17adj. Stiff and lacking vitality; stale.
• kirigami15n. An art similar to origami, with cutting permitted.
• kirkland17n. Land owned by the church.
• kirkyard20n. A churchyard, especially one in Scotland.
• kissable14adj. Capable of being kissed.
• kitemark18n. A certification symbol placed on products by the British Standards...
• kitesurf15v. To take part in kitesurfing.

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• klondike17v. To export fresh fish (usually herring or mackerel) rather than pickled...
• klystron15n. An electron tube used to amplify microwave-frequency electromagnetic...

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• knapping17n. The process or result of a stone being knapped.
• knapsack20n. A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
• knapweed18n. Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
• kneading14n. The process by which something is kneaded.
• kneeling13n. The act by which someone kneels.
• knickers18n. Women's underpants.
• knifeman17n. A man who uses a knife as a weapon.
• knightly19adj. Of or pertaining to a knight or knights.
• knitting13n. The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted...
• knitwear15n. Knitted garments.
• knockers18n. A woman's breasts.
• knocking19n. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced.
• knockoff24n. An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually...
• knockout18n. The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on...
• knothole15n. In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are...
• knotless12adj. Without knots.
• knotting13n. The formation of a knot.
• knotweed16n. Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and...
• knotwork19n. A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes...
• knowable17adj. Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.
• knuckled19adj. Having a certain type of knuckles.
• knuckler18n. A knuckleball.
• knurling13n. A knurled pattern.

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• kohlrabi17n. Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a...
• koinonia12n. Communion by intimate participation, associated with the Christian...
• kolinsky19n. The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica.
• kombucha21n. A fermented, effervescent, and sweetened black tea of Mongolian origin.
• kopitiam16n. A traditional style of eatery having public seating and multiple...
• korfball17n. A non-contact unisex team sport originating from the Netherlands...

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• kreutzer21n. A medieval silver coin once used as currency in southern Germany and...
• krokodil17n. The drug desomorphine.
• krumping17n. A free, expressive and energetic style of hip-hop dancing.

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• kulkarni16n. A person in parts of India who was responsible for maintaining the...
• kunoichi17n. A female ninja.
• kurtosis12n. A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution...
• kurultai12n. A political and military council of ancient Mongol and Turkic chiefs...

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• kyphosis20n. The normal convex curvature of the spine in the thoracic and sacral...

Questions about these words

How many eight-letter words that start with K are there?

Word.ws lists 117 eight-letter words that start with K, plus 556 rare ones.

What are common eight-letter words that start with K?

keyboard, kindness, knocking, kingston, knockout, kangaroo, keystone and knitting.

Which of the eight-letter words that start with K has the highest letter score?

kamikaze scores 27 points with the standard letter tile values.

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