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

  • nonblacks — Plural form of nonblack.
  • parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
  • play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
  • quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
  • roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
  • shellback — an old sailor.
  • shoeblack — bootblack.
  • slab cake — a large square or rectangular-shaped cake
  • slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
  • slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
  • stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
  • tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
  • talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
  • talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
  • trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
  • truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
  • whaleback — Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
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