Silverware is 10 letters, but not the ones you need. How about chopsticks?
Chopsticks
eating
Unsure what is being asked - is the word or phrase you are looking for - "chattel?" Chattel is personal property, which is distinguished from real (estate) property.
pig
tempo
seven letter word beginning with the letter k as being acquainted with
To make it seem that you are not a slob, in meaning of being very sophisticated and confident.
For the same reason we wash eating utensils, plates and drinking glasses ... for sanitary reasons. Diseases could get transmitted orally between two people if this instrument was not properly cleaned after being used.
In the English language there is no actual meaning assigned to the letter N beyond being a letter of the alphabet. In Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic alphabets it is pronounced nun, meaning 'fish'.
control
evade
Easter
warmth