Words Containing: A,L,K,E,R

• the sharp sound of snapping noises

• glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface

• having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware

• make a crackling sound

• make a crushing noise

• to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk

• any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• suggesting war or military life

• Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

• (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

• (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction.

• a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver

• a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation

• glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech

• long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage