9-letter words containing c, r, a, k, e
- 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).
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- earcockle — A disease of wheat in which the ears blacken and contract.
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- enranckle — to upset, make irate
- farcelike — Resembling or characteristic of farce.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- friedcake — Chiefly Inland North. a doughnut or other small cake cooked in deep fat.
- fruitcake — a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- 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.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- hackamore — a simple looped bridle, by means of which controlling pressure is exerted on the nose of a horse, used chiefly in breaking colts.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- horseback — the back of a horse.