9-letter words containing e, n, k
- veldskoen — an ankle-length boot of soft but strong rawhide
- wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
- wanamaker — John, 1838–1922, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- wapentake — (formerly in N England and the Midlands) a subdivision of a shire or county corresponding to a hundred.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- wave tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- weak link — flaw in a process
- weakening — Present participle of weaken.
- weaklings — Plural form of weakling.
- weaknesse — Obsolete form of weakness.
- weekended — Simple past tense and past participle of weekend.
- weekender — a person who goes on a weekend vacation.
- weeknight — any night of the week, usually except Saturday and Sunday.
- well-knit — closely joined together or related; firmly constructed: a well-knit society; a well-knit plot; a muscular, well-knit body.
- wellknown — (nonstandard) Alternative form of well-known.
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- wine cask — a strong wooden barrel used to hold wine
- wine rack — a framework for holding a number of bottles of wine in a horizontal position
- winemaker — an expert in the production of wines.
- wineskins — Plural form of wineskin.
- wittekind — died a.d. 807? Westphalian chief: leader of the Saxons against Charlemagne.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
- womenfolk — women in general; all women.
- womenkind — womankind.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- wonkiness — The state or condition of being wonky.
- workbench — a sturdy table at which an artisan works.
- workwomen — Plural form of workwoman.
- wrinklies — old people
- wrynecked — Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
- yankeedom — the region inhabited by Yankees.
- yankeeism — Yankee character or characteristics.
- yoke oxen — oxen that are used as draught animals and are attached together by means of a yoke
- yuckiness — The state or condition of being yucky.
- zemlinsky — Alexander von, 1871–1942, Austrian composer and conductor.
- zinkenite — a steel-gray mineral with metallic luster, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 6 Sb 14 S 27 .
- znaniecki — Florian [flaw-ree-ahn] /flɔˈri ɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1958, Polish sociologist.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)