8-Letter Words Containing: B,A,B,K

• the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired

• misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service

• Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.

• the act of purchasing back something previously sold

• (possibly offensive) An Aboriginal boy or servant.

• Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.

• a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks

• an esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries

• an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret

• a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women

• an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

• fortitude and determination

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

• the part of a network that connects other networks together

• a loud steady beat