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8-letter words that end in k

  • cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
  • capework — the use of the cape by the matador
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cat-lick — a quick wash
  • catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
  • 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)
  • chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
  • charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
  • chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.
  • chirchik — a city in E Uzbekistan, E of Tashkent.
  • clapback — Lb music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
  • clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
  • claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
  • coalsack — a sack in which coal is carried
  • coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
  • codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
  • coldcock — to knock (a person) to the ground
  • coldwork — The elimination of flaws and rough or sharp areas on the surface of blown or cast glass objects; usually achieved by some combination of grinding and polishing.
  • comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
  • commlink — (scifi) A communications link.
  • comstock — Anthony, 1844–1915, U.S. author and reformer.
  • cookbook — A cookbook is a book that contains recipes for preparing food.
  • copybook — A copybook action is done perfectly, according to established rules.
  • copydesk — desk where newspaper copy is edited
  • cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
  • cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
  • cornsilk — The fine threadlike styles on an ear of corn.
  • cowlneck — a style of neckline for a woman's garment having material draped in rounded folds.
  • crewneck — A crewneck or a crewneck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
  • cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
  • cropsick — unwell as a result of excessive eating or drinking
  • cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
  • cufflink — Cufflinks are small decorative objects used for holding together shirt cuffs around the wrist.
  • cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
  • dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
  • dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians
  • databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
  • datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
  • daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
  • de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
  • deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
  • deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
  • delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
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