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9-letter words containing n, e, k, i

  • pinchbeck — an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
  • pine-like — similar to or resembling pine
  • pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
  • pinkertonAllan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
  • pinkiness — a pinky quality or colouring
  • plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
  • preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
  • princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
  • quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
  • raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
  • ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
  • ravenlike — resembling a raven
  • reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
  • rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
  • requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
  • resinlike — resembling a resin, having characteristics of a resin
  • reskinned — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
  • rethinker — a person who rethinks
  • reworking — revised version
  • reznikoffCharles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
  • ring-dyke — a dyke having an approximately circular outcrop of rock
  • riskiness — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
  • riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
  • rockiness — the state or condition of a person who is shaky or unsteady, as from drinking, fatigue, or illness.
  • rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
  • sarkiness — the quality of being sarcastic
  • schnittkeAlfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
  • screaking — screeching or creaking
  • seakindly — sailing easily in a rough sea.
  • seminaked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • shakiness — tending to shake or tremble.
  • sheepskin — the skin of a sheep, especially such a skin dressed with the wool on, as for a garment.
  • shekhinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.
  • shrieking — a loud, sharp, shrill cry.
  • shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
  • shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
  • sick note — proof of illness
  • sickening — causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
  • sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
  • sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
  • silkaline — a soft, thin cotton fabric with a smooth finish, for curtains, bedspreads, garment linings, etc.
  • silkoline — a silk-like fabric
  • sinuslike — like the sinus
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