6-letter words containing n, k
- bodkin — a blunt large-eyed needle used esp for drawing tape through openwork
- bohunk — a labourer from east or central Europe
- bontok — a member of a people who inhabit northern Luzon in the Philippines.
- botkin — Benjamin Albert, 1901–75, U.S. folklorist, editor, and essayist.
- branks — (formerly) an iron bridle used to restrain scolding women
- branky — ostentatious; showy
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- bunker — A bunker is a place, usually underground, that has been built with strong walls to protect it against heavy gunfire and bombing.
- bunkie — bunkmate.
- bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- buskin — (formerly) a sandal-like covering for the foot and leg, reaching the calf and usually laced
- caking — Present participle of cake.
- calkin — calk2 (def 1).
- canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
- cankle — a thickened area between the calf and ankle in an overweight person, obscuring where one ends and the other begins
- canuck — a Canadian
- catkin — A catkin is a long, thin, soft flower that hangs on some trees, for example birch trees and hazel trees.
- chanks — Plural form of chank.
- chaunk — (cooking) A garnish made by frying mustard seed, asafoetida, and other whole spices in oil or ghee to release the flavours. Added to soups, curries, etc., at the end of cooking.
- chinks — Plural form of chink.
- chinky — Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
- chunks — Plural form of chunk.
- chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
- clanks — Plural form of clank.
- clanky — making clanking sounds
- clinks — Plural form of clink.
- clunks — Plural form of clunk.
- clunky — If you describe something as clunky, you mean that it is solid, heavy, and rather awkward.
- coking — Coking is the process of changing residual oil to low molecular weight gases, naphtha, and gas oils.
- conked — a method of chemically straightening the hair.
- conker — Conkers are round brown nuts which come from horse chestnut trees.
- cranko — John. 1927–73, British choreographer, born in South Africa: director of the Stuttgart Ballet (1961–73)
- cranks — Plural form of crank.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- crinky — (rare) crinkly.
- daikon — a Japanese radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) having a long, white root that is eaten raw or cooked
- danker — Comparative form of dank.
- dankly — In a dank manner.
- darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
- deakin — Alfred. 1856–1919, Australian statesman. He was a leader of the movement for Australian federation; prime minister of Australia (1903–04; 1905–08; 1909–10)
- debunk — If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
- degunk — (informal, transitive) To remove gunk from.
- deking — to deceive (an opponent) by a fake.
- delink — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- diking — an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
- dinkey — a small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.
- dinkie — an affluent married childless person
- dinkly — neat; tidy
- dinkum — genuine; authentic.
- docken — something of no value or importance