These are the meanings of the letters IMBANK when you unscramble them.
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Akin (a.)
Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
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Akin (a.)
Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
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Bank (n.)
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
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Bank (n.)
A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
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Bank (n.)
A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
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Bank (n.)
The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
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Bank (n.)
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
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Bank (n.)
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
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Bank (n.)
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
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Bank (n.)
The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
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Bank (v. t.)
To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
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Bank (v. t.)
To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
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Bank (v. t.)
To pass by the banks of.
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Bank (n.)
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
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Bank (n.)
The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
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Bank (n.)
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
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Bank (n.)
A sort of table used by printers.
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Bank (n.)
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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Bank (n.)
An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
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Bank (n.)
The building or office used for banking purposes.
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Bank (n.)
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
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Bank (n.)
The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
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Bank (n.)
In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
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Bank (v. t.)
To deposit in a bank.
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Bank (v. i.)
To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
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Bank (v. i.)
To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
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Iamb (n.)
An iambus or iambic.
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Kain (n.)
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
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Kami (n. pl.)
A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.
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Main (n.)
A hand or match at dice.
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Main (n.)
A stake played for at dice.
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Main (n.)
The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
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Main (n.)
A match at cockfighting.
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Main (n.)
A main-hamper.
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Main (v.)
Strength; force; might; violent effort.
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Main (v.)
The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
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Main (v.)
The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
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Main (v.)
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
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Main (v.)
principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
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Main (a.)
Very or extremely strong.
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Main (a.)
Vast; huge.
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Main (a.)
Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
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Main (a.)
Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
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Main (a.)
Important; necessary.
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Main (a.)
Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
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Mina (n.)
An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
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Mina (n.)
See Myna.
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Mink (n.)
A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.