8-letter words containing a, b, k
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- 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.
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- nebraska — a state in the central United States. 77,237 sq. mi. (200,044 sq. km). Capital: Lincoln. Abbreviation: NE (for use with zip code), Nebr., Neb.
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- ninebark — any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Physocarpus, of the rose family, having bark that separates into thin layers.
- nonbanks — Plural form of nonbank.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- overbake — (transitive) To bake for too long.
- overbank — to have the balance staff oscillate so greatly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- parbreak — to spew or vomit (up or out)
- passbook — a bankbook.
- pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- peekaboo — Also called bo-peep. a game played by or with very young children, typically in which one covers the face or hides and then suddenly uncovers the face or reappears, calling “Peekaboo!”.
- playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pre-bake — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- put back — postpone
- quadbike — Alternative form of quad bike.
- re-break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- red bank — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- red bark — a kind of cinchona containing a high proportion of alkaloids
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rollback — an act or instance of rolling back.
- roorback — a false and more or less damaging report circulated for political effect, usually about a candidate seeking an office.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- sackable — offence: justifying loss of job
- sandbank — a large mass of sand, as on a shoal or hillside.
- scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
- seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
- set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- setbacks — a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- 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.
- sick bag — a bag provided on an aircraft or ship as a receptacle for vomit