8-letter words containing a, n, k, i
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- cannikin — a small can, esp one used as a drinking vessel
- canstick — a candlestick
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- 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.
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- damaskin — (obsolete) A sword of Damascus steel.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dunnakin — a lavatory
- eximbank — a U.S. government agency that aids in the exporting of U.S. goods and services by making or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- fishtank — a glass-sided tank for keeping, displaying, or observing live fish or other aquatic animals.
- flacking — press agent.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.