8-letter words containing e, n, k
- bentinck — Lord William Cavendish. 1774–1839, British statesman, governor general of Bengal (1828–35)
- bespoken — a past participle of bespeak.
- bikinied — dressed in a bikini
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- bontebok — an antelope, Damaliscus pygargus (or dorcas), of southern Africa, having a deep reddish-brown coat with a white blaze, tail, and rump patch
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
- break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- brinkley — David, 1920–2003, U.S. broadcast journalist.
- brookner — Anita. 1928–2016, British writer and art historian. Her novels include Hotel du Lac (1984), which won the Booker Prize, Brief Lives (1990), and The Next Big Thing (2002)
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- bunk bed — Bunk beds are two beds fixed one above the other in a frame.
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- cake pan — A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- cerenkov — Pavel A [pah-vuh l;; Russian pah-vyil] /ˈpɑ vəl;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl/ (Show IPA), 1904–1990, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1958.
- check in — When you check in or check into a hotel or clinic, or if someone checks you in, you arrive and go through the necessary procedures before you stay there.
- check on — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- check-in — the act or fact of checking in.
- checking — the process of making sure that something is correct or satisfactory
- cheeking — Present participle of cheek.
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chickens — Plural form of chicken.
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- clerking — Present participle of clerk.
- clinkers — Plural form of clinker.
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- cockayne — a fabled land of luxury and idleness.
- cockneys — Plural form of cockney.
- cokernut — coconut.
- convoked — Simple past tense and past participle of convoke.
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cowlneck — a style of neckline for a woman's garment having material draped in rounded folds.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.