8-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- knackery — rendering works.
- knacking — Present participle of knack.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- knapsack — a canvas, nylon, or leather bag for clothes, food, and other supplies, carried on the back by soldiers, hikers, etc.
- kneecaps — Plural form of kneecap.
- lackland — a person who has no land or territory
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- mackinac — Straits of, a strait between the peninsulas of Upper Michigan and Lower Michigan, connecting lakes Huron and Michigan.
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- man jack — a single individual (in the phrases every man jack, no man jack)
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- minijack — A small jack (electrical connector).
- mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.
- muckland — fertile farmland characterized by soil (muck soil) that contains a high percentage (between 20 percent and 50 percent) of organic matter.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- neckatee — a piece of ornamental cloth worn around the neck
- neckband — a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.
- neckgear — any form of clothing or apparel worn around the neck
- necklace — a piece of jewelry consisting of a string of stones, beads, jewels, or the like, or a chain of gold, silver, or other metal, for wearing around the neck.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nicknack — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- nickname — a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of “Whizzer.”.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- nunchaku — Sometimes, nunchakus. a Japanese hand weapon for defense against frontal assault, consisting of two foot-long hardwood sticks joined by a chain or thick cord that stretches to body width.
- on track — heading for sth
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- snacking — a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).