10-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- natterjack — a European toad, Bufo calamita, that moves by running.
- necklacing — Present participle of necklace.
- nectarlike — Resembling or characteristic of nectar.
- nicknaming — Present participle of nickname.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pack it in — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- sand crack — a crack or fissure in the hoof of a horse, extending from the coronet downward toward the sole, caused by a dryness of horn.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser