8-letter words containing k, e, n, l
- flunkies — Plural form of flunkey (Alternative spelling of flunkeys).
- funkhole — a dugout
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gleeking — to make a joke; jest.
- gunkhole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- helsinki — Finnish Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Capital: Helsinki.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- inkwells — Plural form of inkwell.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- junkpile — A pile of junk; a scrapheap.
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kalinite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of potassium and aluminum, chemically similar to alum.
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- karoline — a female given name.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- keelsons — Plural form of keelson.
- kegeling — the sport of bowling.
- kelantan — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- keneally — Thomas (Michael). born 1935, Australian writer. His novels include the Booker prizewinner Schindler's Ark (1982); other works are The Playmaker (1987), The Great Shame (1998), and The Woman and Her Hero (2007)
- kenneled — Simple past tense and past participle of kennel.
- kennelly — Arthur Edwin. 1861–1939, US electrical engineer: independently of Heaviside, he predicted the existence of an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere, known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer or E region
- kephalin — Alternative spelling of cephalin.
- kernelly — with or like a kernel or kernels
- kerplunk — with or as if with a sudden muffled thud: The huge stone hit the water kerplunk.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- kilkenny — a county in Leinster, in the SE Republic of Ireland. 796 sq. mi. (2060 sq. km).
- kindless — lacking kindness; unkind; unsympathetic.
- kindlier — Comparative form of kindly.
- kinglake — Alexander William, 1809–91, English historian.
- kingless — Without a king.
- kinglets — Plural form of kinglet.
- kinglier — Comparative form of kingly.
- kinglike — a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
- kingsley — Charles, 1819–75, English clergyman, novelist, and poet.
- kinsella — W(illiam) P(atrick) born 1935, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, born in Canada.
- kleinian — referring to the theories formulated by Austrian child psychiatrist Melanie Klein (1882–1960).
- klondike — a region of the Yukon territory in NW Canada: gold rush 1897–98.
- klondyke — Alt form klondike.
- kneehole — an open space for the knees and legs, as under a desk.
- kneelers — Plural form of kneeler.
- kneeless — Without knees.
- kneeling — Present participle of kneel.