9-letter words containing g, i, n, k
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- king horn — the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.
- king john — a drama (1596–97?) by Shakespeare.
- king lear — a tragedy (1606) by Shakespeare.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- king rail — a large, long-billed rail, Rallus elegans, of North America, having reddish-brown plumage.
- king-size — larger or longer than the usual size.
- kingbolts — Plural form of kingbolt.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- kingdomed — with a kingdom
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- kingmaker — a person who has great power and influence in the choice of a ruler, candidate for public office, business leader, or the like.
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kingsnake — Any of various colubrid snake of the genus Lampropeltis.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kingstown — an island state in the S Windward Islands, in the SE West Indies comprising St. Vincent island and the N Grenadines: gained independence 1979. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km). Capital: Kingstown.
- kingswood — a city in South Gloucestershire, SW England.
- kippering — Present participle of kipper.
- kirinyaga — the local name of Mount Kenya
- kisangani — a city in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Congo (Zaire) River.
- kissinger — Henry A(lfred) born 1923, U.S. statesman, born in Germany: secretary of state 1973–77; Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
- kissingly — lightly; gently.
- kittening — The giving birth of kittens.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- knee-high — as high as the knees.
- knightage — a group of knights or knights collectively
- knighting — Present participle of knight.
- knobbling — Present participle of knobble.
- knowingly — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- knuckling — Present participle of knuckle.
- kong fuzi — K'ung Fu-tzŭ.
- koniology — the study of atmospheric dust and its effects
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- kowtowing — Present participle of kowtow.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lawmaking — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- linking r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
- linkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- lurkingly — So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.
- m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- mimicking — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
- misliking — Present participle of mislike.
- mistaking — Present participle of mistake.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- monkeying — Present participle of monkey.