8-Letter Words Starting K & Ending ED

• To preserve wood from decay by soaking it in a solution of mercuric chloride

• make unwanted and intrusive comments

• To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.

• To decisively terminate.

• a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission

• bend the knees and bow in a servile manner

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• a joint of a finger when the fist is closed

• press or rub with the knuckles

• shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground

• any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers

• stop from happening or developing

• salted and smoked herring

• originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• raise (someone) to knighthood