9-letter words containing k, a
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckstays — 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.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- bushwhack — to ambush
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- 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
- camellike — resembling a camel
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cantabank — an itinerant singer
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- carjacked — Simple past tense and past participle of carjack.
- carjacker — A carjacker is someone who attacks and steals from people who are driving their own cars.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- caskstand — a frame on which a cask rests
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past