8-letter words containing c, a, k, l
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- ducktail — DA.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- failback — failover
- fallback — an act or instance of falling back.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flacking — press agent.
- flapjack — a pancake or griddlecake.
- 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
- 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
- forslack — to neglect or be neglectful
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- halakhic — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.
- 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.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- 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.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed