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

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

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

• extremely exhausted

• 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

• a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

• 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