8-letter words containing a, c, k, n
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- clanking — a sharp, hard, nonresonant sound, like that produced by two pieces of metal striking, one against the other: the clank of chains; the clank of an iron gate slamming shut.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- cockayne — a fabled land of luxury and idleness.
- cocksman — A man who is sexually talented.
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- dockhand — a dockworker.
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- flacking — press agent.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- knackers — Plural form of knacker.