8-letter words containing b, e, k
- herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- inkberry — Also called gallberry. a shrub, Ilex glabra, having leathery, evergreen leaves and black berries.
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- jokebook — a book of jokes.
- kabeljou — a large marine sciaenid fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus, that is an important food fish of South African waters
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- keelboat — a roughly built, shallow freight boat, having a keel to permit sailing into the wind.
- keepable — able to be kept
- kennebec — a river flowing S through W Maine to the Atlantic. 164 miles (264 km) long.
- kerberos — Cerberus (def 1).
- kerbside — a side of a pavement or street bordered by a curb.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- key club — a private nightclub admitting only members and their guests, the members often being given door keys to the club.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- kibibyte — (computing) Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- kibitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibitz.
- kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
- kibitzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibitz.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.
- kielbasa — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- kielbasy — a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
- killable — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- kilobase — (in expressing the lengths of nucleic acid molecules) 1,000 bases.
- kilobyte — 1024 (2 10) bytes.
- kimberly — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- king bee — a self-important person.
- kissable — inviting kissing through being lovable or physically attractive.
- knobbles — Plural form of knobble.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knoblike — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knowable — capable of being known.
- kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
- kotzebue — August Friedrich Ferdinand von [ou-goo st free-drikh fer-di-nahnt fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt fən/ (Show IPA), 1761–1819, German dramatist.
- lamblike — like a lamb; gentle; meek.
- lie back — sb: recline
- likeable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- likeably — In a likeable way.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- makeable — a rough stone
- makebate — a person who causes contention or discord.
- markable — Capable of being marked.