8-letter words containing k
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of 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 pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- cakewalk — If you say that something is a cakewalk, you mean that it is very easy to do or achieve.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- callback — A callback is an occasion when you are asked to return for a second interview for a job, or a second audition for a part in a show.
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannikin — a small can, esp one used as a drinking vessel
- canstick — a candlestick
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capmaker — a person who makes caps
- car keys — a key or keys used to lock, unlock, and operate an automobile
- car park — A car park is an area or building where people can leave their cars.
- car sick — If someone feels car sick, they feel sick as a result of traveling in a car.
- card key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
- card-key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
- caretake — to work as a caretaker
- carjacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carjack.
- carmaker — a company that manufactures automobiles
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cassocks — Plural form of cassock.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- 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
- cerenkov — Pavel A [pah-vuh l;; Russian pah-vyil] /ˈpɑ vəl;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl/ (Show IPA), 1904–1990, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1958.
- chackles — to chatter; jabber.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.