10-letter words containing n, a, r, k, s
- karamanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- karlskrona — a port in S Sweden: Sweden's main naval base since 1680. Pop: 61 097 (2004 est)
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- keratinise — Alternative form of keratinize.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- kermanshah — a city in W Iran.
- kersantite — an igneous rock containing black mica and plagioclase
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kings park — a town in NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- kurrajongs — Plural form of kurrajong.
- kyrgyzstan — official name of Kirghizia.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- markedness — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- markswoman — a woman skilled in shooting at a mark; a woman who shoots well.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- moonrakers — Plural form of moonraker.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- newsmakers — Plural form of newsmaker.
- noah's ark — the patriarch who built a ship (Noah's Ark) in which he, his family, and animals of every species survived the Flood. Gen. 5–9.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- sand crack — a crack or fissure in the hoof of a horse, extending from the coronet downward toward the sole, caused by a dryness of horn.
- sand shark — sand tiger.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.