8-Letter Words Containing: Y,A,C,K

• medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

• the dishonesty of a charlatan

• a check issued in payment of wages or salary

• A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.

• A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.

• A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.

• (underwater diving) A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.

• having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

• blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets

• small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals

• a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick

• the act of reproducing recorded sound

• electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material

• financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

• the act of purchasing back something previously sold