8-letter words containing k, i, l, n
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- cufflink — Cufflinks are small decorative objects used for holding together shirt cuffs around the wrist.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- delinked — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- devilkin — a small devil; a devil inferior to 'the' devil
- dickling — (vulgar, slang) A penis before circumcision.
- disliken — to render dissimilar to
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dry kiln — an oven for the controlled drying and seasoning of cut lumber.
- duckling — a young duck.
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- enkindle — Set on fire.
- eyeblink — An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- fernlike — Resembling a fern.
- fickling — Present participle of fickle.
- fin keel — a finlike projection extending downward from the keel of a sailboat, serving to prevent lateral motion and acting as additional ballast.
- flacking — press agent.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flecking — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- flick-on — a manoeuvre in which a player receives an incoming pass and flicks it on with a gentle header or kick to another player.
- flicking — Present participle of flick.
- flinkite — a greenish brown transparent mineral of the anhydrous phosphate group, with chemical formula Mn2+2Mn3+(AsO4)(OH)4
- flocking — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- flunkies — Plural form of flunkey (Alternative spelling of flunkeys).
- flunking — Present participle of flunk.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- gleeking — to make a joke; jest.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- 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.
- hot link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- 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)
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- ink ball — one of a pair of heavy pads of horsehair and cotton covered with sheepskin or buckskin and equipped with a handle, used before the invention of the ink roller for dabbing ink on type for printing.
- ink blot — a stain on paper, made by ink
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.