8-letter words containing n, a, r, k
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darkmans — night-time
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- embanker — a person who makes an embankment
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- forerank — the first rank
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- frankest — Superlative form of frank.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- grandkid — grandchild.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankerer — A person who hankers.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harkness — Edward Stephan, 1874–1940, U.S. philanthropist.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- junk art — sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- kandahar — a city in S Afghanistan.