8-letter words containing k, i, c, a
- ducktail — DA.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.
- failback — failover
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- flacking — press agent.
- flatpick — a plectrum
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gimcrack — a showy, useless trifle; gewgaw.
- 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.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- halakhic — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- highjack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hit back — retaliate
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- ice pack — pack ice.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jickajog — a jogging or rolling motion
- 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.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khichadi — Alternative form of khichdi.
- kiabooca — padouk.