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9-letter words containing c, l, a, k, b

  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
  • blue jack — a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
  • boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
  • brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
  • buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
  • bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
  • call back — If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you.
  • callbacks — Plural form of callback.
  • camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
  • carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
  • checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
  • chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
  • clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
  • classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
  • claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
  • clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
  • clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
  • clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
  • cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
  • clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
  • crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fallbacks — Plural form of fallback.
  • flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
  • flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flat back — a book spine presenting a completely flat surface.
  • flickable — able to be flicked
  • full-back — sports; player , position
  • fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
  • gas black — finely powdered carbon produced by burning natural gas. It is used as a pigment in paints, etc
  • half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
  • halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
  • hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
  • jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
  • katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
  • kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
  • laid-back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
  • lampblack — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
  • leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
  • left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
  • look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
  • lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
  • non-black — a person who is not of a Black race
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