8-letter words containing b, a, c, k
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
- clapback — Lb music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- cockboat — any small boat
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- cookable — That can be cooked; suitable for cooking.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- failback — failover
- fallback — an act or instance of falling back.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- greyback — grayback.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- hit back — retaliate
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kickback — a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.