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

  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • pack animal — a mule, donkey, burro, or horse bred for vigor and hardiness and used for carrying heavy loads.
  • packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
  • painkilling — of or relating to a drug or method of reducing or eliminating pain
  • painstaking — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
  • paper knife — 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.
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • risk-taking — courting danger or loss
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
  • sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
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