7-letter words containing k, e, r, n
- gerenuk — a reddish-brown antelope, Litocranius walleri, of eastern Africa, having a long, slender neck.
- gherkin — the small, immature fruit of a variety of cucumber, used in pickling.
- greking — (obsolete) The break (of day); dawn.
- gronked — 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down." 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick. "I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!" Compare broken, which means about the same as gronk used of hardware, but connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people.
- hankers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hanker.
- harkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harken.
- hearken — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- honkers — Plural form of honker.
- huneker — James (Gibbons) [gib-uh nz] /ˈgɪb ənz/ (Show IPA), 1860–1921, U.S. music critic and writer.
- hunkers — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- icerink — Alternative spelling of ice rink.
- inbreak — a breaking in; invasion
- inkster — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- intaker — One who or that which takes or draws in.
- invoker — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- jerking — jerky2 .
- jerkins — Plural form of jerkin.
- juncker — Jean-Claude ( ʒɑ̃klod) born 1954, Luxembourgish politician; prime minister of Luxembourg (1995–2013); president of the European Commission from 2014
- junkers — a member of a class of aristocratic landholders, especially in East Prussia, strongly devoted to militarism and authoritarianism, from among whom the German military forces recruited a large number of its officers.
- junkier — of the nature of junk; trashy.
- kamerun — German name of Cameroons.
- karengo — an edible Pacific seaweed, Porphyra columbina
- kärnten — Carinthia
- kastner — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1899–1974, German writer.
- katrine — Loch, a lake in central Scotland. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- 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.
- kearney — a city in S Nebraska, on the Platte.
- kendrew — John C(owdery) [koh-dree] /ˈkoʊ dri/ (Show IPA), 1917–97, English scientist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- kenmore — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- keratin — a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc.
- kerbing — the material forming a curb, as along a street.
- keresan — a family of languages spoken by Pueblo tribes of the Rio Grande valley and neighboring areas.
- kernels — Plural form of kernel.
- kerning — Obsolete. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.
- kernish — of, belonging to, or resembling a kern
- kernite — a mineral, hydrated sodium borate, Na 2 B 4 O 7 ⋅4H 2 O, occurring in transparent colorless crystals: the principal source of boron compounds in the U.S.
- kerogen — the bituminous matter in oil shale, from which shale oil is obtained by heating and distillation.
- kerrang — The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.
- kerulen — a river in NE Mongolia, flowing S and E to Kulun Lake, in NE China: a headstream of the Amur River 785 miles (1263 km) long.
- keyring — A ring, normally of metal or plastic, for holding keys together.
- kherson — a port in S Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea.
- kindler — to start (a fire); cause (a flame, blaze, etc.) to begin burning.
- kindred — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- kinkier — full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
- kirsten — a female given name, Scandinavian form of Christine.
- klavern — a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
- klunker — clunker (def 2).
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- knapper — One who knaps.