8-letter words containing ak
- fanakalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- flakelet — a small flake, as of snow.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- forepeak — the extreme forward part of the interior of a hull (opposed to afterpeak).
- foretake — (transitive) To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- forsaker — One who forsakes.
- forsakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forsake.
- forspeak — to bewitch
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- freakier — Comparative form of freaky.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- habakkuk — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- hakafoth — a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times.
- hakodate — a seaport on S Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- halakhah — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- halakhic — (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
- halakoth — Halakhah.
- halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
- harakeke — (NZ) flax, specifically Phormium tenax.
- harakiri — Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hatmaker — a maker of hats
- hay rake — a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.
- hayakawa — S(amuel) I(chiye) [ih-chee-ey] /ɪˈtʃi eɪ/ (Show IPA), 1906–92, U.S. semanticist, educator, and politician, born in Canada: senator 1977–83.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- heartake — Rare spelling of heartache.
- herakles — Hercules
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- hoe-cake — an unleavened cake made with flour or corn meal: originally baked on a hoe but now usually cooked on a griddle.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- holm oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, of southern Europe, having foliage resembling that of the holly.
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- horokaka — a New Zealand low-growing plant, Disphyma australe with fleshy leaves and pink or white flowers
- hot cake — a pancake or griddlecake.
- hot take — a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic: a hot take on healthcare reform.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- indo-pak — of or relating to India and Pakistan
- intaking — Present participle of intake.