6-letter words containing a, n, k
- manuka — A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.
- markan — of, relating to, or characteristic of St. Mark or of the second Gospel.
- maukin — (Scotland) Alternative form of malkin.
- mawkin — malkin.
- mckean — Tom. born 1963, Scottish athlete: European 800 metres gold medallist (1990)
- nacked — Simple past tense and past participle of nack.
- nacket — a light lunch or snack
- nakfas — Plural form of nakfa.
- nakuru — a town in W Kenya, on Lake Nakuru: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 264 000 (2005 est)
- nanook — the polar bear
- napkin — a small piece of cloth or paper, usually square, for use in wiping the lips and fingers and to protect the clothes while eating.
- naraka — a place of torment for the spirits of the wicked.
- narked — British Slang. a stool pigeon or informer.
- narvik — a seaport in N Norway.
- nashik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- naskhi — the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.
- natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
- neckar — a river in SW Germany, flowing N and NE from the Black Forest, then W to the Rhine River. 246 miles (395 km) long.
- newark — a city in NE New Jersey, on Newark Bay.
- nickar — a hard, round seed with a smooth, bluish or yellowish shell, produced by the tropical plant Caesalpinia (nickar tree)
- nocake — Indian maize that is dried and powered into meal
- nogaku — Nō.
- nootka — a Wakashan language spoken in SW Canada on the western coast of Vancouver Island.
- nu-kua — a Chinese goddess who repaired and restored order to heaven and earth when they were damaged, and who created the human race.
- nuxalk — a member of a Salishan Native Canadian people of British Columbia
- parkin — (in Britain and New Zealand) a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal
- planck — Max Karl Ernst [mahks kahrl ernst] /mɑks kɑrl ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel prize 1918.
- pranky — inclined to play pranks.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- raking — inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- ranker — a person who ranks.
- ranket — a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- rankin — Jeannette, 1880–1973, U.S. women's-rights leader and pacifist: first woman elected to Congress; served 1917–19, 1941–43.
- rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankly — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- reckan — a chain, hook or bar for hanging a pot over a fire
- ryokan — a traditional Japanese inn or small hotel whose floors are covered with tatami.
- sandek — the man who holds the child during the Jewish rite of circumcision.
- sanjak — (in Turkey) one of the administrative districts into which a vilayet is divided.
- sankey — Ira David. 1840–1908, US evangelist and hymnodist, noted for his revivalist campaigns in Britain and the US with D. L. Moody
- sendak — Maurice (Bernard) 1928–2012, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
- shaken — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shrank — a simple past tense of shrink.
- sikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
- skagen — Skaw, The.
- skanda — the Hindu god of war.
- skanky — dirty, foul-smelling, or unattractive
- skeena — a river in W British Columbia, Canada, flowing S and SW to the Pacific Ocean. 360 miles (579 km) long.
- skyman — an aviator or paratrooper.
- snacks — Snacks is are simple foods that are quick and easy to prepare and eat.