8-letter words containing k, i, c
- bootlick — to seek favour by servile or ingratiating behaviour towards (someone, esp someone in authority); toady
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- bricking — the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cake mix — Cake mix is a powder that you mix with eggs and water or milk to make a cake. You bake the mixture in the oven.
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- cannikin — a small can, esp one used as a drinking vessel
- canstick — a candlestick
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- car sick — If someone feels car sick, they feel sick as a result of traveling in a car.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- cavelike — similar to or resembling a cave
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- check in — When you check in or check into a hotel or clinic, or if someone checks you in, you arrive and go through the necessary procedures before you stay there.
- check-in — the act or fact of checking in.
- checking — the process of making sure that something is correct or satisfactory
- cheekier — Comparative form of cheeky.
- cheekily — impudent; insolent: a cheeky fellow; cheeky behavior.
- cheeking — Present participle of cheek.
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- chickens — Plural form of chicken.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chickory — Alternative spelling of chicory.
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- chinking — a chinking sound: the chink of ice in a glass.
- chinooks — Plural form of chinook.
- chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.