8-letter words containing e, n, k
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
- fernlike — Resembling a fern.
- fin keel — a finlike projection extending downward from the keel of a sailboat, serving to prevent lateral motion and acting as additional ballast.
- finnesko — A boot of tanned reindeer skin with the hair on the outside.
- firepink — a herbaceous wildflower with scarlet flowers, Silene virginica, belonging to the pink family and native to the Eastern US
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flecking — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- flinkite — a greenish brown transparent mineral of the anhydrous phosphate group, with chemical formula Mn2+2Mn3+(AsO4)(OH)4
- flunkeys — Plural form of flunkey (alternative spelling of flunkies).
- flunkies — Plural form of flunkey (Alternative spelling of flunkeys).
- foreking — A preceding king.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forerank — the first rank
- foreskin — the prepuce of the penis.
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- frankest — Superlative form of frank.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- frecking — Present participle of freck.
- funkhole — a dugout
- funkster — a performer or fan of funk music
- gedanken — John Reynolds, 1970. "GEDANKEN - A Simple Typeless Language Based on the Principle of Completeness and the Reference Concept", J.C. Reynolds, CACM 13(5):308-319 (May 1970).
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- gherkins — Plural form of gherkin.
- ginkgoes — Plural form of ginkgo.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gleeking — to make a joke; jest.
- greeking — greek
- greenock — a seaport in the Strathcylde region, in SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde.
- gun deck — (formerly, on a warship) any deck, other than the weather deck, having cannons from end to end.
- gunkhole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunsmoke — Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankerer — A person who hankers.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- helsinki — Finnish Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Capital: Helsinki.
- hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henpecks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henpeck.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)