8-letter words containing e, n, k
- crewneck — A crewneck or a crewneck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- cytokine — any of various proteins, secreted by cells, that carry signals to neighbouring cells. Cytokines include interferon
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- de koven — (Henry Louis) Reginald, 1861–1920, U.S. composer, conductor, and music critic.
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- dedekind — (Julius Wilhelm) Richard (ˈjuːlɪʊs ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈrixɑːt). 1831–1916, German mathematician, who devised a way (the Dedekind cut) of according irrational and rational numbers the same status
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- delinked — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- desknote — a computer that is similar in size to a notebook computer, but is designed to remain stationary, like a desktop computer
- devilkin — a small devil; a devil inferior to 'the' devil
- diketone — a compound containing two C=O groups, as CH 3 COCOCH 3 .
- dinkiest — Superlative form of dinky.
- disliken — to render dissimilar to
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drinkery — barroom; tavern.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- duveneck — Frank (Frank Decker) 1848–1919, U.S. painter and teacher.
- ektexine — the outer of the two layers that make up the exine
- elkhound — A large hunting dog of a Scandinavian breed with a shaggy gray coat.
- embanked — Simple past tense and past participle of embank.
- embanker — a person who makes an embankment
- eniwetok — an atoll in the W Pacific Ocean, in the NW Marshall Islands: taken by the US from Japan in 1944; became a naval base and later a testing ground for atomic weapons. Pop: 820 (1999 est)
- enkernel — to put inside a kernel
- enkindle — Set on fire.
- eriksson — Sven-Goran (ˈsfɛnˈɡɜːrən). born 1948, Swedish football manager; honours as a club manager include the UEFA Cup (1982) with Gothenburg, three Portuguese league titles with Benfica (1983, 1984, 1990), and the Italian league with Lazio (2000); head coach of the England national team (2001–06)
- ewe-neck — a condition in horses in which the neck is straight and sagging rather than arched
- eximbank — a U.S. government agency that aids in the exporting of U.S. goods and services by making or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports
- eyeblink — An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.
- fakement — Lb archaic A forgery; something faked.
- fakeness — The condition of being fake.