9-Letter Words Containing A,N,D,E,K,S,_,_

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

• 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 member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor

• an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor

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

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

• a band around the collar of a garment

• a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over

• necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck

• a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism

• showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple

• a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence