8-letter words containing a, k, r
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- braddock — Edward1695-1755; Brit. general, born in Scotland: commander of the Brit. forces in the French & Indian War
- brakeage — the braking power of a vehicle, esp a train
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breakage — Breakage is the act of breaking something.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- bro talk — Māori English
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- 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
- 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
- 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
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- charkhas — Plural form of charkha.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- clackers — any of various percussion toys consisting of balls or blocks joined by a cord.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery