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8-letter words containing k, a, t

  • backport — (software)   To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
  • backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
  • backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
  • backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
  • backstab — to attack in a deceitful manner
  • backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
  • backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
  • backtalk — an impudent response; impudence.
  • backtick — back quote
  • bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
  • bakemeat — a pie
  • banknote — Banknotes are pieces of paper money.
  • bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
  • bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
  • bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
  • basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
  • beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
  • bestreak — to streak
  • bethwack — to strike hard with a flat object
  • big talk — bragging or boasting talk
  • 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.
  • blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
  • blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
  • blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
  • blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
  • bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
  • blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
  • blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
  • boathook — a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
  • boatlike — resembling a boat
  • boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • bootjack — a device that grips the heel of a boot to enable the foot to be withdrawn easily
  • brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
  • bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
  • breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
  • brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
  • britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
  • bro talk — Māori English
  • buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
  • buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
  • bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
  • bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
  • cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
  • canstick — a candlestick
  • canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
  • caretake — to work as a caretaker
  • cat-lick — a quick wash
  • catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
  • catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
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