9-letter words containing n, a, k, e
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- blackener — someone who blackens
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- boat neck — a high slitlike neckline of a garment that extends onto the shoulders
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bracknell — a town in SE England, in Bracknell Forest unitary authority, Berkshire, designated a new town in 1949. Pop: 70 795 (2001)
- brake van — the coach or vehicle from which the guard applies the brakes; guard's van
- brake-van — the caboose of a railway train.
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakeven — the level of commercial activity at which the total cost and total revenue of a business enterprise are equal
- breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- caretaken — looked after
- catkinate — like a catkin
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debeaking — Present participle of debeak.