7-letter words containing k, a, i, n
- gawking — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- hacking — a rack for drying food, as fish.
- haitink — Bernard. born 1929, Dutch orchestral conductor; received an honorary knighthood in 1977
- hankies — Plural form of hanky.
- hanking — a skein, as of thread or yarn.
- harking — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harkins — William Draper, 1873–1951, U.S. chemist.
- hawking — to make an effort to raise phlegm from the throat; clear the throat noisily.
- hawkins — Sir Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") 1863–1933, English novelist and playwright.
- hokiang — Older Spelling. Hejiang.
- ikebana — the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
- ilokano — Ilocano.
- in-take — the place or opening at which a fluid is taken into a channel, pipe, etc.
- inbreak — a breaking in; invasion
- ink bag — a gland near the anus of an octopus or related mollusc that holds fluid ejected into the water for self-concealment
- ink pad — block saturated with ink
- ink sac — a large gland in most cephalopods, as the cuttlefish, octopus, and squid, that is near the rectum and ejects ink at predators.
- ink-cap — any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap (Coprinus comatus), also called lawyer's wig, a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales
- inkatha — a South African Zulu organization founded by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi in 1975 as a paramilitary group seeking nonracial democracy; won four seats in South Africa's first nonracial elections in 1994
- intaken — Past participle of intake.
- intaker — One who or that which takes or draws in.
- intakes — Plural form of intake.
- jack in — abandon, quit
- jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kaifeng — a city in NE Henan province, in E China: a former provincial capital.
- kainite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of magnesium and potassium chloride, occurring in granular crystalline masses, a source of potassium salts.
- kajaani — a city in central Finland.
- kalinin — Mikhail Ivanovich [myi-khuh-yeel ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1946, Russian revolutionary: president of the U.S.S.R. 1923–46.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- kangris — Plural form of kangri.
- kantian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Kant.
- kaoline — Alternative spelling of kaolin.
- karting — An open-wheeled motorsport that uses small vehicles called karts or go-karts.
- karvina — an industrial city in the NE Czech Republic, in N Moravia.
- katcina — kachina.
- katniss — (archaic) Sagittaria sagittifolia, a herbaceous perennial flowering plant that grows in water.
- katrina — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- katrine — Loch, a lake in central Scotland. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- katsina — Alternative form of kachina.
- kaverin — Veniamin [ven-yuh-meen;; Russian vyi-nyi-uh-myeen] /ˌvɛn yəˈmin;; Russian vyɪ nyɪ ʌˈmyin/ (Show IPA), (Veniamin Aleksandrovich Zilberg) 1902–1989, Russian novelist.
- kayoing — Present participle of kayo.
- keating — Paul. born 1944, Australian Labor politician; prime minister of Australia (1991–96)
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- keratin — a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc.
- kevalin — a person who is free of karmic matter, detached, and omniscient; Tirthankara.
- khamsin — a hot southerly wind, varying from southeast to southwest, that blows regularly in Egypt and over the Red Sea for about 50 days, commencing about the middle of March.
- khoisan — a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San and the Khoikhoi.
- kiangsi — Jiangxi.