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

  • broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
  • crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
  • crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
  • dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
  • dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
  • dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
  • eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
  • fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
  • frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
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