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11-letter words containing a, n, y, k

  • merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
  • mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
  • 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.
  • money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
  • moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
  • moneymaking — profitable: a moneymaking scheme.
  • monkey bars — children's climbing frame
  • monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
  • mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
  • myth-making — a creator of myths.
  • nosy parker — a prying person
  • nutty slack — coal
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
  • pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
  • parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
  • peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
  • pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
  • rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
  • shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
  • sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
  • szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
  • tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
  • teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
  • thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
  • unhackneyed — fresh or recent
  • unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
  • working day — daytime hours occupied by work
  • working-day — workaday; everyday.
  • yankee bond — a bond issued by a foreign corporation or country designed for sale in the U.S.
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