7-letter words containing e, n, k
- kedging — Present participle of kedge.
- keeling — Present participle of keel.
- keelman — someone who works on a barge or who is in charge of a keel
- keelson — any of various fore-and-aft structural members lying above or parallel to the keel in the bottom of a hull.
- keelung — Chilung.
- keenest — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
- keening — a wailing lament for the dead.
- keep in — to stay indoors
- keep on — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keeping — board and lodging; subsistence; support: to work for one's keep.
- keepnet — (nautical) A net strung on wire hoops and sealed at one end, suspended in water by anglers to keep alive the fish they have caught.
- keeving — Present participle of keeve.
- kegling — the sport of bowling.
- kellion — a small community of monks.
- kelowna — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kelping — any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
- kelvins — Plural form of kelvin.
- kembing — Present participle of kemb.
- kendall — Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- kendrew — John C(owdery) [koh-dree] /ˈkoʊ dri/ (Show IPA), 1917–97, English scientist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- kenmore — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- kennedy — Anthony M, born 1936, U.S. jurist, Supreme Court justice 1988–.
- kennels — Plural form of kennel.
- kenneth — a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “handsome.”.
- kennett — a town in SE Missouri.
- kenning — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kenosis — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- kenotic — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- kentish — of or relating to Kent or its people.
- kentuck — Kentucky.
- keratin — a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc.
- kerbing — the material forming a curb, as along a street.
- keresan — a family of languages spoken by Pueblo tribes of the Rio Grande valley and neighboring areas.
- kernels — Plural form of kernel.
- kerning — Obsolete. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.
- kernish — of, belonging to, or resembling a kern
- kernite — a mineral, hydrated sodium borate, Na 2 B 4 O 7 ⋅4H 2 O, occurring in transparent colorless crystals: the principal source of boron compounds in the U.S.
- kerogen — the bituminous matter in oil shale, from which shale oil is obtained by heating and distillation.
- kerrang — The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.
- kerulen — a river in NE Mongolia, flowing S and E to Kulun Lake, in NE China: a headstream of the Amur River 785 miles (1263 km) long.
- ketones — Plural form of ketone.
- ketonic — any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5 .
- kevalin — a person who is free of karmic matter, detached, and omniscient; Tirthankara.
- kewanee — a city in NW Illinois.
- keyline — an outline image of something on artwork or plans to show where it is to be placed
- keynote — Music. the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded; the tonic.
- keyring — A ring, normally of metal or plastic, for holding keys together.
- khanate — the area governed by a khan.