8-letter words containing a, l, k, i
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- 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
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- 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.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- 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.
- cocktail — A cocktail is an alcoholic drink which contains several ingredients.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- divalike — (literally) like a spoiled diva.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- ducktail — DA.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- failback — failover
- faliraki — a coastal resort in SE Greece, on Rhodes. Pop: 400 (2000 est)
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.
- flacking — press agent.
- flaglike — Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- flax kit — a basket woven from flax fibres
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- galelike — Resembling or characteristic of a gale of wind.
- gamelike — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.