8-letter words containing a, b, k, h
- 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.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- kabbalah — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- whackjob — (colloquial, pejorative) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.