8-letter words containing a, n, k
- beckmann — Ernst Otto (ɛrnst ˈɔːto). 1853–1923, German chemist: devised the Beckmann thermometer, used for measuring small temperature changes in liquids
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cake pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannikin — a small can, esp one used as a drinking vessel
- canstick — a candlestick
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- 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.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.