9-letter words containing s, a, c, k
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- backsolve — To determine the inputs that would lead to a given output in a mathematical system.
- backspace — to move a (typewriter carriage) backwards
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- backstabs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstab.
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backstall — the loss of power and tendency to drop of a kite in low winds
- backstamp — a mark stamped on the back of an envelope by a post office to indicate the date and place of its arrival
- backstays — Plural form of backstay.
- backstops — Plural form of backstop.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backstrap — A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
- 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.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- ballcocks — Plural form of ballcock.
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- black sea — an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
- bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- 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.
- 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.
- callbacks — Plural form of callback.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- 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