8-letter words containing a, l, k
- lylafklc — (chat) Love you like a fat kid loves cake.
- mackerel — a food fish, Scomber scombrus, of the North Atlantic, having wavy cross markings on the back.
- magickal — Involving, or pertaining to, magick (in modern occultism).
- makeable — a rough stone
- makefile — Alternative spelling of make file.
- makeless — having no mate or match.
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- malenkov — Georgi Maximilianovich [gyi-awr-gyee muh-ksyi-myi-lyah-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi mə ksyɪ myɪˈlyɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1902–88, Russian political leader: premier of the Soviet Union 1953–55.
- mameluke — a member of a military class, originally composed of slaves, that seized control of the Egyptian sultanate in 1250, ruled until 1517, and remained powerful until massacred or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- markable — Capable of being marked.
- markedly — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- markland — An old Scots unit of measure equal to eight ouncelands.
- maskable — capable of being masked
- 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.
- mel kaye — (person) The hero of The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. The preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959) contain the following attribution from Clay S. Boswell, Jr. (apparently ACT 1's designer): I wish to acknowledge my appreciation to the many people who offered suggestions and criticisms of the ACT 1 System. In particular, Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming. (2008-08-04)
- 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.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- muckland — fertile farmland characterized by soil (muck soil) that contains a high percentage (between 20 percent and 50 percent) of organic matter.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- nastalik — a Persian cursive script
- necklace — a piece of jewelry consisting of a string of stones, beads, jewels, or the like, or a chain of gold, silver, or other metal, for wearing around the neck.
- new talk — ntalk
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
- oak gall — any of various rounded galls produced on oaks, especially the horned oak gall.
- oak lawn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- oak leaf — the leaf of an oak tree
- 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.
- oarlocks — Plural form of oarlock.
- 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
- oklahoma — a state in the S central U.S. 69,919 sq. mi. (181,090 sq. km). . Capital: Oklahoma City. Abbreviation: OK (for use with zip code), Okla.
- old talk — (chat) The old implementations of talk. See "ntalk" for details.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.