9-letter words containing k, n, e, c
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- crew neck — A crew neck or a crew neck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dechunker — chunker
- deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- economick — Obsolete form of economic.
- enranckle — to upset, make irate
- fencelike — Resembling a fence (artificial barrier) or some aspect of one.
- finickety — fussy or exacting; a cross between finicky and pernickety
- freckling — Present participle of freckle.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- gooseneck — a curved object resembling the neck of a goose, often of flexible construction, as in the shaft of a gooseneck lamp.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- iceblinks — Plural form of iceblink.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- iseikonic — relating to iseikonia
- jack bean — a bushy tropical plant, Canavalia ensiformis, of the legume family, grown especially for forage.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
- jackknife — a large pocketknife.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.