8-letter words containing a, c, k
- oatcakes — Plural form of oatcake.
- offtrack — occurring or carried on away from a racetrack: offtrack betting.
- oil cake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- on track — heading for sth
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overrack — to strain too much
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pack ice — a large area of floating ice formed over a period of many years and consisting of pieces of ice driven together by wind, current, etc.
- pack off — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- pack rat — person who hoards or collects
- pack-rat — to save in the manner of a pack rat: I’m looking through the stuff my grandpa pack-ratted away in the attic.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- packsack — a leather or canvas carrying bag, usually one that can be strapped over the shoulder and used to carry food and personal items when a person is traveling.
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- plackart — placate2 .
- playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pluck at — If you pluck at something, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply but gently.
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- 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
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- rack car — a flatcar containing a frame or frames for carrying various objects, as automobiles, logs, girders, etc.
- rack off — to go away; depart
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- racketer — a person who makes a racket
- racketry — noise and commotion
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- reattack — to attack (a country, person, etc) again
- rejacket — a new covering or jacket, esp for a book