10-letter words containing k, e, r, n
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- caretaking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- centrelink — the Australian federal agency that distributes welfare funds
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
- checkering — Present participle of checker.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
- copperskin — a Native American
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- corncockle — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Agrostemma githago, that has reddish-purple flowers and grows in cornfields and by roadsides
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- creakiness — The state of being creaky.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cricketing — Cricketing means relating to or taking part in cricket.
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crooknecks — Plural form of crookneck.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cyberknife — a laser surgery technique which uses a mobile robotic arm to target tumours, etc, more effectively than conventional radiotherapy
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- darknesses — Plural form of darknesse.
- deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- die-sinker — a person who engraves dies for stamping coins, medals, etc
- diet drink — a type of drink, usually a version of an existing drink, that is marketed as being good for slimmers because it is low in calories
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.