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

• A compact folding knife.

• The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.

• A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.

• A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.

• To break up into small, mutually hostile units, especially on a political basis.

• a small short-billed Old World snipe

• American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

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

• an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence

• English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)

• a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces

• Any voucher or note from a merchant to a customer to provide an item the merchant has run out of at a later date for the item's current price, or (in a more literal sense) to provide a service at a later date.

• In social interactions, a polite way to turn down an invitation, with the implication one is simply postponing it and that another time would be acceptable.