8-letter words containing a, l, k
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flacking — press agent.
- flaglike — Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
- flakelet — a small flake, as of snow.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flapjack — a pancake or griddlecake.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- flatpack — A package for an integrated circuit consisting of a rectangular sealed unit with a number of horizontal metal pins protruding from its sides.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- 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.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
- folkland — a former type of land tenure
- folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- forkball — a pitch thrown with the ball inserted between the index and middle fingers, causing it to dip sharply near home plate.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- forslack — to neglect or be neglectful
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- 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.
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- go blank — If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question.
- 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.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hairlike — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- halakhah — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- halakhic — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- halakoth — Halakhah.
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
- halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.