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11-letter words containing n, a, k, e, r

  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • carsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
  • corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
  • countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
  • crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
  • crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
  • cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
  • dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
  • demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
  • derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
  • diefenbakerJohn George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • disk sander — a sander that uses a revolving abrasive disk driven by an electric motor.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
  • drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
  • dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • e-marketing — the practice of marketing by means of the internet
  • ekman layer — the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
  • fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • frankenfood — (colloquial, derogatory) genetically modified food.
  • frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
  • frankfurterFelix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
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