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8-letter words containing a, k, i

  • anythink — (UK) eye dialect of anything.
  • apikoros — A Jewish skeptic or apostate.
  • ashikaga — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns 1338–1573.
  • ass-kick — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
  • asterisk — An asterisk is the sign *. It is used especially to indicate that there is further information about something in another part of the text.
  • atkinson — Sir Harry Albert. 1831–92, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister of New Zealand (1876–77; 1883–84; 1887–91)
  • auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
  • autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
  • babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
  • babylike — Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
  • backbite — to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
  • backfile — the archives of a newspaper or magazine
  • backfill — to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
  • backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
  • backfist — a karate punch with the back of a clenched hand.
  • backflip — a backwards somersault in mid air with arms and legs extended
  • backings — Plural form of backing.
  • backlift — the backward movement of a cricket bat in preparation for a swing
  • backline — (in some team sports) the defensive players considered as a unit
  • backlink — An incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website.
  • backlins — backward; back.
  • backlist — a publisher's previously published books that are still available
  • backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
  • backpain — Alternative form of back pain.
  • backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
  • backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
  • backspin — a backward spinning motion imparted to a ball to reduce its speed at impact, as by hitting it with a downward or undercutting motion
  • backtick — back quote
  • backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
  • bahookie — the buttocks
  • baidarka — a type of narrow hunting boat, similar to a kayak, made of sealskin and used by inhabitants of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
  • baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
  • bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
  • bakeries — Plural form of bakery.
  • bakshish — a tip, present, or gratuity.
  • baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
  • balkline — a line at one end of a table from behind which opening shots with the cue ball are made
  • balywick — Alternative form of bailiwick.
  • banksias — Plural form of banksia.
  • bankside — the sloping side of any bank
  • barkings — Plural form of barking.
  • barnlike — resembling a barn
  • basilisk — (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
  • baudekin — baldachin
  • baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
  • beadlike — resembling a bead
  • beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
  • beaklike — Resembling a beak; pointed.
  • beanlike — resembling a bean
  • bearlike — resembling a bear
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