8-letter words containing a, b, c
- educable — capable of being educated.
- embraced — Hold (someone) closely in one's arms, esp. as a sign of affection.
- embracer — A person who embraces.
- embraces — Plural form of embrace.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- failback — failover
- fallback — an act or instance of falling back.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hit back — retaliate
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jacobean — of or relating to James I of England or to his period.
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.