8-letter words containing a, c, k
- carmaker — a company that manufactures automobiles
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cassocks — Plural form of cassock.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- cavelike — similar to or resembling a cave
- chackles — to chatter; jabber.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- champaks — Plural form of champak.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- charkhas — Plural form of charkha.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chatchka — tchotchke
- chechako — cheechako
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clackers — any of various percussion toys consisting of balls or blocks joined by a cord.
- clackety — A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
- clamlike — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- clanking — a sharp, hard, nonresonant sound, like that produced by two pieces of metal striking, one against the other: the clank of chains; the clank of an iron gate slamming shut.
- clapback — Lb music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour