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10-letter words containing a, k, i, n

  • outranking — Present participle of outrank.
  • overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
  • pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
  • pack it in — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
  • pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
  • painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
  • painstaker — a painstaking person
  • paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
  • parakiting — parasailing.
  • paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
  • parentlike — a father or a mother.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
  • perikaryon — cell body.
  • pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
  • piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
  • pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
  • pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
  • plain knit — the simplest knitted construction, consisting of vertical ribs visible on the front of the fabric and horizontal rows of stitches visible on the back, used in the production of hosiery and jersey fabrics.
  • planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
  • planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
  • playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
  • poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
  • portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
  • prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
  • prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
  • prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
  • printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
  • radio link — radio communication setup
  • rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
  • ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
  • raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
  • reichsbank — the former German national bank.
  • retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • right bank — a part of Paris, France, on the N bank of the Seine.
  • ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
  • river bank — land at edge of a river
  • roadmaking — road building
  • rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
  • ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
  • run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
  • sailmaking — the craft or profession of making of sails
  • saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
  • sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
  • scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
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