11-letter words containing a, n, e, s, k
- lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- lassen peak — an active volcano in N California, in the S Cascade Range. 10,465 feet (3190 meters).
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- likableness — The property of being likable, that which makes likable.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- noisemaking — The production of noise.
- nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
- nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
- nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nosy parker — a prying person
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
- peak season — busiest annual period
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- 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.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- 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.
- sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- seasickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.