8-letter words containing b, a, c, t
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- get back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hit back — retaliate
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- lab coat — long white garment worn in laboratory
- liftback — hatchback.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- put back — postpone
- sabbatic — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
- seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
- set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- setbacks — a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- sit back — relax, rest
- slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
- softback — paperback book
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- subacute — somewhat or moderately acute.
- subcaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- subcosta — a longitudinal vein in the anterior portion of the wing of an insect.
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- tacloban — a seaport on NE Leyte, in the central Philippines.
- tacubaya — a former city in the Federal District of Mexico: now a SW district of Mexico City; national observatory.
- tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
- takeback — something taken back or withdrawn, especially an employee benefit previously gained in a union contract; takeaway.
- talkback — a system of telephone links enabling spoken directions to be given during the production of a programme
- the crab — the constellation Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac
- trackbed — the foundation on which railway tracks are laid
- tribadic — lesbian (def 5).
- tribasic — (of an acid) having three atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
- tribrach — Prosody. a foot of three short syllables.
- turbocar — a car driven by a gas turbine
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- umbratic — of or relating to the shade or shadows
- watchbox — a sentry's shelter
- webcasts — Plural form of webcast.
- wetbacks — Plural form of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States.