8-letter words containing n, a, r, k
- pranking — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- prefrank — to frank in advance
- qindarka — Plural form of qindark\u00eb.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankling — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- red bank — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- rink rat — a youth who spends a great deal of time at a hockey rink, helping with maintenance work, sweeping, etc., often without pay or in return for free admission to the rink.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- shankara — a.d. 789?–821? Hindu Vedantist philosopher and teacher.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- sneakers — a high or low shoe, usually of fabric such as canvas, with a rubber or synthetic sole.
- soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stunkard — sulky
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- taker-in — licker-in.
- tank car — Railroads. a car containing one or more tanks for the transportation of liquids, gases, or granular solids.
- tantrika — Also called Tantrist [tuhn-trist, tan-] /ˈtʌn trɪst, ˈtæn-/ (Show IPA). an adherent of Tantra.
- tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackman — a person who assists in inspecting, installing, or maintaining railroad tracks.
- traiking — to become ill or lose one's good health.
- transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- unmarked — not marked.
- unracked — not stretched
- unranked — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- weakener — A person who, or thing that weakens.
- wracking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- wreaking — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.