9-letter words containing e, n, k
- lancejack — a lance corporal
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
- lankiness — The state or condition of being lanky.
- larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
- leakiness — The property of being leaky.
- lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- leninakan — a city in NW Armenia.
- libeskind — Daniel. born 1946, US architect, born in Poland. Based in Berlin, he designed the Jewish Museum there (1999), the Imperial War Museum in Manchester (2000), and the "Freedom Tower" that will replace the World Trade Center in New York
- licker-in — a roller on a carding machine, especially the roller that opens the stock as it is fed into the card and transfers the fibers to the main cylinder.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- lime kiln — a kiln in which calcium carbonate is calcined to produce quicklime
- limekilns — Plural form of limekiln.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- looker-on — a person who looks on; onlooker; witness; spectator.
- love knot — a knot of ribbon as a token of love.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- mackensen — August von [ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1945, German field marshal.
- mackenzie — Sir Alexander, 1764–1820, Scottish explorer in Canada.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make-nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- mandrakes — a narcotic, short-stemmed European plant, Mandragora officinarum, of the nightshade family, having a fleshy, often forked root somewhat resembling a human form.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- masakhane — a political slogan of solidarity
- mauna kea — a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. 13,784 feet (4201 meters).
- mechanick — Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- milkiness — The property of being milky.
- milkwomen — Plural form of milkwoman.
- minibiker — a rider of a minibike
- minibreak — A brief pause for relaxation.
- minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- moleskins — the soft, deep-gray, fragile fur of the mole.
- mon-khmer — a group of Austroasiatic languages that includes Mon, of Burma, and Khmer, the language of Cambodia.
- monk seal — a small, dark brown, subtropical seal of the genus Monachus: the three species, M. tropicalis of the Caribbean, M. schauinslandi of Hawaiian island regions, and M. monachus of the Mediterranean, are endangered.
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monkeying — Present participle of monkey.