8-letter words containing a, c, r, k
- 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
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians
- dockyard — a waterside area containing docks, workshops, warehouses, etc., for building, outfitting, and repairing ships, for storing naval supplies, etc.
- docmaker — (text, tool, product) An application for the Apple Macintosh which creates stand-alone, self-running document files. It features scrollable and re-sizable windows, graphics, varied text styles and fonts, full printing capability, and links to other software and information. Companies such as Federal Express, GTE, Hewlett-Packard, Iomega, Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Computer and Aladdin use DOCMaker to distribute disk-based documentation with their products.
- drammock — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- forslack — to neglect or be neglectful
- frackers — Plural form of fracker.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- hardhack — a woolly-leaved North American shrub, Spiraea tomentosa, of the rose family, having short, spikelike clusters of rose-colored flowers.
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardrock — the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
- hardtack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- havocker — a person who causes havoc
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- 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-tar — a sailor.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.