9-letter words containing o, a, k
- back room — a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backblock — (Australia, New Zealand, usually, in the plural) A residential area remote from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backcloth — A backcloth is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery or buildings painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backflows — Plural form of backflow.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backsolve — To determine the inputs that would lead to a given output in a mathematical system.
- backstops — Plural form of backstop.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- ball cock — a device for regulating the flow of a liquid into a tank, cistern, etc, consisting of a floating ball mounted at one end of an arm and a valve on the other end that opens and closes as the ball falls and rises with the water level in the cistern
- ballcocks — Plural form of ballcock.
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bank loan — a sum of money borrowed by a customer or business from a bank, often for a specific purpose, such as buying a car
- bank note — a promissory note issued by a bank, payable on demand: it is a form of paper money
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- bankbooks — Plural form of bankbook.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- bankrolls — Plural form of bankroll.
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- bar kokba — Simon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.