8-letter words containing o, a, k
- backroad — Alternative spelling of back road.
- backroom — A backroom is a room that is situated at the back of a building, especially a private room.
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- backwood — (often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
- backword — the act or an instance of failing to keep a promise or commitment (esp in the phrase give (someone) backword)
- backwork — work carried out under the ground
- bahookie — the buttocks
- baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
- bake-off — A bake-off is a cooking competition.
- bakeshop — Also called bakeshop [beyk-shop] /ˈbeɪkˌʃɒp/ (Show IPA). a baker's shop.
- balakovo — a city in the W RSFSR, in the E SovietUnion in Europe, SW of Gorki.
- ballcock — A valve that automatically fills a tank after liquid has been drawn from it. Used, for example, in a flush toilet, a ballcock has a float on the end of a pivoting arm that opens the valve when the arm drops.
- ballocks — (nonce, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks.
- bank box — safe-deposit box.
- bankbook — a book held by depositors at certain banks, in which the bank enters a record of deposits, withdrawals, and earned interest
- banknote — Banknotes are pieces of paper money.
- bankroll — To bankroll a person, organization, or project means to provide the financial resources that they need.
- bannocks — Plural form of bannock.
- bazookas — Plural form of bazooka.
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blackcod — sablefish.
- 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.
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blowback — the escape to the rear of gases formed during the firing of a weapon or in a boiler, internal-combustion engine, etc
- blowkart — a simple wheeled vehicle such as a go-kart which has been fitted with a sail and is powered by the wind
- 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.
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- book bag — a bag or satchel used especially by a student for carrying books.
- bookable — If something such as a theatre seat or plane ticket is bookable, it can be booked in advance.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- bookmark — A bookmark is a narrow piece of card or leather that you put between the pages of a book so that you can find a particular page easily.
- bookrack — a rack for holding books
- bootjack — a device that grips the heel of a boot to enable the foot to be withdrawn easily
- bow back — a chair back formed of a single length of wood bent into a horseshoe form and fitted to a seat or arm rail, with spindles or slats as a filling.
- braddock — Edward1695-1755; Brit. general, born in Scotland: commander of the Brit. forces in the French & Indian War
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- bro talk — Māori English
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- 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