9-letter words containing a, b, k
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- bushwhack — to ambush
- call back — If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you.
- callbacks — Plural form of callback.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cantabank — an itinerant singer
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
- clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
- come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crab cake — patty made of crab meat
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackback — (in American football) an illegal block made by an offensive player
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crookback — a hunchback
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.