9-Letter Words Containing: AKE__

• any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used

• something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

• a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake

• an easy accomplishment

• perform the cakewalk dance

• something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

• done or made using whatever is available

• a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying

• a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing

• 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 workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

• a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat

• creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries