9-letter words containing a, c, k
- rack rail — (in an inclined-plane or mountain-climbing railway) a rail between the running rails having cogs or teeth with which cogwheels on the locomotive engage.
- rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
- rear deck — deck (def 12).
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- repackage — to package again or afresh, as in a different style, design, or size: The soap has been repackaged to be more eye-catching.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rice cake — puffed-rice snack food
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rock cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- rock face — a perpendicular side of a rock
- rock fall — a fall of loose rocks
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rock-face — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rock-hard — Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roof rack — A roof rack is a metal frame that is fixed on top of a car and used for carrying large objects.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- sack coat — a short coat or jacket with a straight back and no seam at the waist.
- sack race — a race in which each contestant jumps ahead while his or her legs are confined in a sack.
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sage cock — the male sage grouse.
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.