7-letter words containing n, a, k, e
- klavern — a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
- knacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knack.
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- knaidel — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knapped — Simple past tense and past participle of knap.
- knapper — One who knaps.
- knarled — Alternative form of gnarled.
- knavery — action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- knawels — Plural form of knawel.
- kneaded — Simple past tense and past participle of knead.
- kneader — A person who, or machine that kneads dough.
- kneecap — the patella.
- kneepad — a pad of leather, foam rubber, etc., as one worn by football or basketball players to protect the knee.
- kneepan — the kneecap or patella.
- kokanee — any of several lacustrine sockeye salmons.
- krasner — Lee, 1908–84, U.S. abstract expressionist painter (wife of Jackson Pollock).
- kundera — Milan, born 1929, Czech-born novelist resident in France.
- kutenai — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kutenay — a member of a North American Indian people of British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho.
- kwaiken — a curved knife formerly used by Japanese women to commit suicide.
- kyanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in blue or greenish bladed triclinic crystals, used as a refractory.
- kyanize — to treat (wood) against decay with a solution of mercuric chloride.
- lake no — a lake in South Sudan, where the Bahr el Jebel (White Nile) is joined by the Bahr el Ghazal. Area: about 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- lankier — Comparative form of lanky.
- leaking — Present participle of leak.
- linkage — the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- makeing — Misspelling of making.
- makonde — a member of a people living in northeastern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, renowned as woodcarvers.
- malinke — a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- manlike — resembling a human being; anthropoid.
- mckenna — Siobhan [shuh-vawn,, -von] /ʃəˈvɔn,, -ˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), 1923–86, Irish actress.
- nakedly — In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.
- nankeen — a firm, durable, yellow or buff fabric, formerly made from a natural-colored Chinese cotton.
- neatnik — a person who is extremely neat about surroundings, appearance, etc.
- nechako — a river in central British Columbia, Canada, flowing NE and E to the Fraser river. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- netmask — (networking) A 32-bit bit mask which shows how an Internet address is to be divided into network, subnet and host parts. The netmask has ones in the bit positions in the 32-bit address which are to be used for the network and subnet parts, and zeros for the host part. The mask should contain at least the standard network portion (as determined by the address's class), and the subnet field should be contiguous with the network portion. If a `+' (plus sign) is given for the netmask value, then the network number is looked up in the NIS netmasks.byaddr map (or in the /etc/netmasks) file if not running the NIS service.
- nonpeak — off-peak.
- nutcake — A cake made with nuts.
- on-peak — peak1 (def 17).
- pancake — a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
- pikeman — a soldier armed with a pike.
- pranked — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
- rake in — an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.
- ramekin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- rankest — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rankine — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- rankled — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.