8-letter words containing a, c, k
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- highjack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hit back — retaliate
- hoe-cake — an unleavened cake made with flour or corn meal: originally baked on a hoe but now usually cooked on a griddle.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- hot cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- ice pack — pack ice.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- jack oak — the blackjack, Quercus marilandica.
- jack off — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack rod — a horizontal metal rod or tube to which an awning or other cloth may be seized to support it.
- jack tar — a sailor.
- jack-off — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack-tar — a sailor.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jackeroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jacketed — Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jackstay — a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent.
- jackyard — a small, inclined spar upholding the head of a quadrangular gaff topsail similar in form to a lugsail.
- jam-pack — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- jerkface — (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jickajog — a jogging or rolling motion
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse