8-letter words containing k, e, r, n
- fernlike — Resembling a fern.
- firepink — a herbaceous wildflower with scarlet flowers, Silene virginica, belonging to the pink family and native to the Eastern US
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- foreking — A preceding king.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forerank — the first rank
- foreskin — the prepuce of the penis.
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- frankest — Superlative form of frank.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- frecking — Present participle of freck.
- funkster — a performer or fan of funk music
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- gherkins — Plural form of gherkin.
- greeking — greek
- greenock — a seaport in the Strathcylde region, in SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankerer — A person who hankers.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- honecker — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, East German Communist leader: chairman of the Council of State 1976–89.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hunkered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunker.
- ice rink — arena with ice-covered floor
- inkberry — Also called gallberry. a shrub, Ilex glabra, having leathery, evergreen leaves and black berries.
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- jerkings — Plural form of jerking.
- jirkinet — a jacket or bodice worn by women
- junketer — Someone taking part in a junket or banquet etc; a partygoer.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- karoline — a female given name.
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- kerenski — Aleksandr Feodorovich [uh-lyi-ksahn-dr fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1970, Russian revolutionary leader: premier 1917; in the U.S. after 1946.
- kerensky — ˌAlekˈsanˌdr Feodoˈrovich (ˌɑljɛkˈsɑnˌdəʀ fjɔdɔˈrɔvɪtʃ) ; äˌlyeksänˈdər fy^ōˌd^ōr^ōˈvich) 1881-1970; Russ. revolutionary leader: prime minister of Russia (July-Nov., 1917), overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution: in the U.S. after 1940
- kernelly — with or like a kernel or kernels
- kerosene — a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc.