9-letter words containing h, a, r, k
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- 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.
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rock-hard — Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.
- shakspere — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sharkskin — a smooth fabric of acetate or rayon with a dull or chalklike appearance, for apparel.
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.