8-letter words containing k, a, b, i
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- eximbank — a U.S. government agency that aids in the exporting of U.S. goods and services by making or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports
- failback — failover
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- 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.
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hit back — retaliate
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- ink ball — one of a pair of heavy pads of horsehair and cotton covered with sheepskin or buckskin and equipped with a handle, used before the invention of the ink roller for dabbing ink on type for printing.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kalimbas — Plural form of kalimba.
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kibitkas — Plural form of kibitka.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kickback — a percentage of income given to a person in a position of power or influence as payment for having made the income possible: usually considered improper or unethical.
- kickball — a children's game, similar to baseball, in which a large inflated ball, as a soccer ball, is kicked instead of being batted.
- kielbasa — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.