8-letter words containing a, b, k
- forkball — a pitch thrown with the ball inserted between the index and middle fingers, causing it to dip sharply near home plate.
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- 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.
- go blank — If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question.
- 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.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- habakkuk — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- 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.
- halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
- handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- 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.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- 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.
- 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.
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- ink ball — one of a pair of heavy pads of horsehair and cotton covered with sheepskin or buckskin and equipped with a handle, used before the invention of the ink roller for dabbing ink on type for printing.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- 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 bank — a data file or agency for matching persons seeking work with suitable job openings.
- 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.
- kabeljou — a large marine sciaenid fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus, that is an important food fish of South African waters
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kabloona — a white man; a European.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kalimbas — Plural form of kalimba.
- kamaboko — Any of various processed seafood products made from surimi, in which whitefish is pureed, formed into loaves, and steamed until firm.
- karlsbad — German name of Karlovy Vary.
- kasavubu — Joseph, 1917?–69, African political leader: first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) 1960–65.
- kawabata — Yasunari [yah-soo-nah-ree] /ˈyɑ sʊˈnɑ ri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.