9-letter words containing c, a, n, k
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- queencake — a small light cake containing currants
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- raincheck — 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.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- sand jack — any of a number of containers of sand driven beneath a hull about to be launched as a temporary support and then drained of sand so as to let the hull down onto the launching cradle.
- sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- swan neck — a shallow S-curve used in decorative work.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- uncracked — broken: a container full of cracked ice.
- unpacking — removal of items from suitcase, etc.
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- untracked — that is not or cannot be tracked or traced: untracked marauders of the jungle.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- vraicking — the act of gathering vraic
- wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- wine cask — a strong wooden barrel used to hold wine
- wine rack — a framework for holding a number of bottles of wine in a horizontal position
- wing back — In football, a wing back is a defender who also takes part in attacking play.
- wingbacks — Plural form of wingback.
- znaniecki — Florian [flaw-ree-ahn] /flɔˈri ɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1958, Polish sociologist.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)