9-letter words containing k, a, r, n
- flankered — Simple past tense and past participle of flanker.
- foresaken — Misspelling of forsaken.
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- frankable — (AU,finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
- frankfort — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- frankfurt — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- frankland — Sir Edward, 1825–99, English chemist: developed theory of valence.
- frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- grandkids — grandchild.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard neck — audacity; nerve
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- intrabank — Within a single bank (financial institution).
- iron mask — an iron covering for the face, supposedly used in the past to conceal the identity of a well-known prisoner
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- kangaroos — Plural form of kangaroo.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- karabiner — a D -shaped ring with a spring catch on one side, used for fastening ropes in mountaineering.
- karaganda — a city in central Kazakhstan.
- karankawa — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians who lived in southeastern Texas until the mid 19th century.
- karnataka — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- karsavina — Tamara [tuh-mah-ruh] /təˈmɑ rə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Russian dancer.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.