8-letter words containing a, t, c, k
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- caretake — to work as a caretaker
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chatchka — tchotchke
- clackety — A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- cockatoo — A cockatoo is a kind of parrot from Australia or New Guinea which has a bunch of feathers called a crest on its head.
- cockboat — any small boat
- cocktail — A cocktail is an alcoholic drink which contains several ingredients.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- ducktail — DA.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- empacket — to wrap up
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- fatstock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- 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
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackette — A female journalist.
- hardtack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hatcheck — of, noting, or engaged in the checking of hats, coats, umbrellas, etc., into temporary safekeeping: a hatcheck girl.
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- haystack — a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
- hit back — retaliate
- hot cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot pack — a hot towel, dressing, or the like, applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- jack tar — a sailor.
- jack-tar — a sailor.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jacketed — Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jackstay — a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kicktail — The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.