9-letter words containing a, n, k
- chiacking — to jeer at; tease; deride.
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chinkiang — Older Spelling. Zhenjiang.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cockswain — coxswain
- contakion — kontakion.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- crackling — the crisp browned skin of roast pork
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksman — a burglar, esp a safe-breaker
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dandyfunk — a type of dessert typically eaten at sea, consisting of a cake or biscuit baked in fat and molasses
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darklings — in darkness
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- data bank — A data bank is the same as a database.
- data link — a telecommunications link between two locations enabling the transmission and receiving of data
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.