8-letter words containing a, c, k
- claylike — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- coalsack — a sack in which coal is carried
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- cockaded — Wearing a cockade.
- cockades — Plural form of cockade.
- cockapoo — a cross between a cocker spaniel and a poodle
- cockatoo — A cockatoo is a kind of parrot from Australia or New Guinea which has a bunch of feathers called a crest on its head.
- cockayne — a fabled land of luxury and idleness.
- cockboat — any small boat
- cocksman — A man who is sexually talented.
- cocktail — A cocktail is an alcoholic drink which contains several ingredients.
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- cookable — That can be cooked; suitable for cooking.
- cookmaid — a maid who assists a cook
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cossacks — (especially in czarist Russia) a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen.
- cow cake — cow dung.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crackers — crazy; insane
- crackies — by cracky.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- crackjaw — difficult to pronounce
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- croakers — Plural form of croaker.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.