8-letter words containing a, b, c
- jacobina — a female given name.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kickback — a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
- kickball — a children's game, similar to baseball, in which a large inflated ball, as a soccer ball, is kicked instead of being batted.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- la ceiba — a seaport in N Honduras.
- lab coat — long white garment worn in laboratory
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- laidback — Alternative spelling of laid-back.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- laybacks — Plural form of layback.
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- lie back — sb: recline
- liftback — hatchback.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- lock bay — a broadened section of a canal before the gates of a lock.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- loopback — The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- macahuba — a South American palm tree of the genus Acrocomia
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- maccaboy — a kind of snuff, usually rose-scented.
- mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- ms-basic — Microsoft Basic
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- muhlbach — Luise [loo-ee-zuh] /luˈi zə/ (Show IPA), (Klara Müller Mundt) 1814–73, German novelist.
- nancyboy — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate or homosexual man.
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.