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8-letter words containing a, l, k, i

  • magickal — Involving, or pertaining to, magick (in modern occultism).
  • makefile — Alternative spelling of make file.
  • masklike — a covering for all or part of the face, worn to conceal one's identity.
  • mazelike — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
  • milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
  • milk can — large metal container for milk
  • milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
  • milkmaid — a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.
  • millcake — linseed cake.
  • millikan — Robert Andrews, 1868–1953, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1923.
  • moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
  • mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
  • nastalik — a Persian cursive script
  • nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
  • novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
  • oak wilt — a disease of oaks, characterized by wilting and discoloration of the leaves and defoliation, usually starting at and spreading from the top of the tree and the ends of the branches, caused by a fungus, Chalara quercina.
  • oakville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
  • oil cake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
  • oil tank — any tank for containing or storing oil such as a very large oil storage container at a refinery; a large oil storage area on an oil tanker; or a smaller container for the storage of heating oil at a property
  • palmlike — resembling a palm
  • parklike — an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
  • pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
  • peaklike — resembling a peak
  • planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
  • quaylike — resembling a quay
  • rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
  • raw milk — unpasteurized milk
  • raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
  • rillmark — a mark or channel left by the trickle of a rill or brook
  • rinkhals — ringhals.
  • roadkill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).
  • salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
  • sealskin — the skin of a seal.
  • seamlike — like or resembling a seam
  • selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
  • shashlik — shish kebab.
  • sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
  • silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
  • silk oak — any of several Australian trees of the genus Grevillea, especially G. robusta, having feathery, fernlike leaves and showy orange or yellow flowers, grown as a street tree in Florida and California.
  • silktail — the waxwing
  • sinkable — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
  • skil saw — a portable electric saw
  • skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
  • slablike — resembling a slab
  • slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
  • snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
  • sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
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