8-letter words containing a, l, k
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blowback — the escape to the rear of gases formed during the firing of a weapon or in a boiler, internal-combustion engine, etc
- blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- bookable — If something such as a theatre seat or plane ticket is bookable, it can be booked in advance.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- bro talk — Māori English
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- cakewalk — If you say that something is a cakewalk, you mean that it is very easy to do or achieve.
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- callback — A callback is an occasion when you are asked to return for a second interview for a job, or a second audition for a part in a show.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- 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
- chackles — to chatter; jabber.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clackers — any of various percussion toys consisting of balls or blocks joined by a cord.
- clackety — A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.