8-letter words containing b, e, c, k
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- buck-eye — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Aesculus, as A. glabra (Ohio buckeye) having palmate leaves, gray, scaly bark, and bell-shaped greenish-yellow flowers in upright clusters: the state tree of Ohio.
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- buckshee — without charge; free
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
- codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
- comblike — resembling a comb
- 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
- creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- 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.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- 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.
- greyback — grayback.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- kennebec — a river flowing S through W Maine to the Atlantic. 164 miles (264 km) long.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- lie back — sb: recline
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- neckbeef — the flesh from the neck of cattle, regarded as being of poor quality
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- sackable — offence: justifying loss of job
- 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.