10-Letter Words Containing: _,A,E,K,N,S,S

• a small short-billed Old World snipe

• American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

• game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

• a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

• a knot for shortening a line

• any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

• a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever

• a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg

• a crystal of snow

• white Arctic bunting

• To remove shackles from someone or something.

• To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.