8-Letter Words Containing: A,D,C,A,_

• a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom

• French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)

• a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

• common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery

• the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:

• the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

• the grounds in back of a house

• directed or facing toward the back or rear

• (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal

• in or to or toward a past time

• retarded in intellectual development

• having made less than normal progress

• (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke

• a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke

• (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward

• hit a tennis ball backhand

• the quality of being a hindrance

• relating to or included in the zodiac