8-letter words containing a, b, n, k
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- embanked — Simple past tense and past participle of embank.
- embanker — a person who makes an embankment
- eximbank — a U.S. government agency that aids in the exporting of U.S. goods and services by making or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fog bank — a stratum of fog as seen from a distance.
- foodbank — a charitable organization which distributes food aid to people in financial difficulty
- 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.
- handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- 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.
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- job bank — a data file or agency for matching persons seeking work with suitable job openings.
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kabloona — a white man; a European.
- kinabalu — a mountain in N Sabah, in Malaysia: highest peak on the island of Borneo. 13,455 feet (4101 meters).
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knowable — capable of being known.
- lambkins — Plural form of lambkin.
- lambskin — the skin of a lamb, especially when dressed with its wool, and used for clothing.
- landbank — An area of land held in reserve by a house-building firm.
- 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