8-letter words containing a, n, k
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- fishtank — a glass-sided tank for keeping, displaying, or observing live fish or other aquatic animals.
- flacking — press agent.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- fog bank — a stratum of fog as seen from a distance.
- folkland — a former type of land tenure
- foodbank — a charitable organization which distributes food aid to people in financial difficulty
- forerank — the first rank
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- frankest — Superlative form of frank.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- gas tank — a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
- gedanken — John Reynolds, 1970. "GEDANKEN - A Simple Typeless Language Based on the Principle of Completeness and the Reference Concept", J.C. Reynolds, CACM 13(5):308-319 (May 1970).
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- go blank — If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- grandkid — grandchild.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gymkhana — a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankerer — A person who hankers.
- hanukiah — a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah
- hanukkah — a Jewish festival lasting eight days, celebrated from the 25th day of the month of Kislev to the 2nd of Tevet in commemoration of the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees following their victory over the Syrians under Antiochus IV, characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hunkpapa — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- indo-pak — of or relating to India and Pakistan