9-letter words containing c, r, a, k, b
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hark back — to listen attentively; hearken.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- neckbrace — (emergency medicine) An orthopedic device used to support the neck and head of those with neck or head injuries.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- 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 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.
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- 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.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- work back — to work overtime