9-letter words containing a, k, e, r
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- carjacked — Simple past tense and past participle of carjack.
- carjacker — A carjacker is someone who attacks and steals from people who are driving their own cars.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- checkmark — a tick
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- core leak — memory leak
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- crab cake — patty made of crab meat
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crankness — (of a vessel) the liability to capsize
- crapelike — resembling crape
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- dark ages — the period from about the late 5th century ad to about 1000 ad, once considered an unenlightened period
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- dark-eyed — (of a person) having dark eyes
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.