9-letter words containing d, a, r, k
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- firedrake — a mythical fiery dragon.
- flankered — Simple past tense and past participle of flanker.
- floodmark — A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
- frankland — Sir Edward, 1825–99, English chemist: developed theory of valence.
- frederika — a female given name.
- friedcake — Chiefly Inland North. a doughnut or other small cake cooked in deep fat.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- grademark — a symbol noting the relative quality of a product, as lumber.
- grandkids — grandchild.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard rock — heavy form of popular music
- hard tack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hard tick — any tick of the family Ixodidae, characterized by a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
- hard-rock — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hardhacks — Plural form of hardhack.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- karaganda — a city in central Kazakhstan.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kinkaider — a person who received free land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- kneeboard — a short board for surfing or water-skiing in a kneeling position.
- krasnodar — a territory of the Russian Federation in SE Europe. 34,200 sq. mi. (88,578 sq. km).