8-letter words containing a, l, k
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
- 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.
- clapback — Lb music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- 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.
- coalsack — a sack in which coal is carried
- cocktail — A cocktail is an alcoholic drink which contains several ingredients.
- cookable — That can be cooked; suitable for cooking.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- 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.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- divalike — (literally) like a spoiled diva.
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- dry lake — a tract of land in a desert region over which a shallow lake is formed during the rainy season or after prolonged heavy rains.
- ducktail — DA.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- eastlake — Sir Charles Locke, 1836–1906, English architect, designer, and author.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- eyestalk — A movable stalk that bears an eye near its tip, especially in crabs, shrimps, and related crustaceans, and in some mollusks.
- failback — failover
- faliraki — a coastal resort in SE Greece, on Rhodes. Pop: 400 (2000 est)
- falkland — of or relating to the Falkland Islands
- fallback — an act or instance of falling back.
- fanakalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.