9-letter words containing k, a, r, b
- crab cake — patty made of crab meat
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- crackable — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackback — (in American football) an illegal block made by an offensive player
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crookback — a hunchback
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- fairbanks — Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.
- farm-bike — a motorcycle built for off-road travel
- fernbrake — a thicket or dense growth of ferns.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- firebreak — a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
- frankable — (AU,finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
- gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- 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.
- grosbeaks — Plural form of grosbeak.
- grossbeak — Alternative form of grosbeak.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hark back — to listen attentively; hearken.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- intrabank — Within a single bank (financial institution).
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- 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
- karabiner — a D -shaped ring with a spring catch on one side, used for fastening ropes in mountaineering.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.