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9-letter words containing e, n, k

  • phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
  • phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
  • picketing — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
  • pickiness — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
  • picnicker — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
  • pinchbeck — an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
  • pine-like — similar to or resembling pine
  • pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
  • pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
  • pinkiness — a pinky quality or colouring
  • plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
  • pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
  • polo neck — high turtleneck collar
  • polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
  • pound key — a push button on a telephone or key on a computer keyboard that is marked with a pound sign (#).
  • poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
  • prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
  • predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
  • preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
  • preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
  • princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
  • prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
  • queencake — a small light cake containing currants
  • quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
  • racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
  • raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
  • ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
  • ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
  • rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
  • ravenlike — resembling a raven
  • reckon on — count on, rely on
  • reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
  • rednecked — (of an animal) with a red neck
  • reef knot — a square knot used in reefing sails.
  • refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
  • rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
  • rent book — a document that acts as a record of the regular amounts of money that you have paid as rent for accommodation
  • requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
  • resinlike — resembling a resin, having characteristics of a resin
  • reskinned — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
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