9-Letter Words Containing: A,E,K,N,W

• A keen investigative reporter.

• 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)

• a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

• a mental or physical breakdown

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a cessation of normal operation

• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

• a crystal of snow

• white Arctic bunting

• hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion

• any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers

• a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story