11-letter words containing e, n, k
- grass snake — Also called ring snake. a common European snake, Natrix natrix, having a collar of bright orange or yellow.
- green snake — any slender, green snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America, feeding chiefly on insects.
- greenkeeper — greenskeeper.
- greenmarket — farmers' market.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- greenshanks — Plural form of greenshank.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- header tank — a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- high-necked — (of a garment) high at the neck.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hypokinesia — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinesis — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- hypokinetic — abnormally diminished muscular function or mobility.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in the book — in all that is known and practiced in connection with a particular activity
- in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
- in the know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- in the pink — healthy, on good form