8-Letter Words Starting: KEY

• A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.

• An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.

• To use such a device or machine

• Any word used as the key to a code.

• Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.

• A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.

• Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

• device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like

• holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung

• a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism

• the hole where a key is inserted

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• the principal theme in a speech or literary work

• a fundamental or central idea

• (music) the first note of a diatonic scale

• set the keynote of

• give the keynote address to (an audience)