9-letter words containing k, a, r, i
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- skid mark — a mark left on the road by tyres after a vehicle has skidded
- skid road — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skim-read — to read quickly and superficially, in order to pick up the important or significant details
- skimboard — a type of short, rounded surfboard used for riding in shallow water.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- snakebird — anhinga.
- sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- sri lanka — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Capital: Colombo.
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take fire — to begin to burn
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- taxi rank — queuing area for hire cabs
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- tie-break — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- tripitaka — Pali Canon.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- ukrainian — of or relating to Ukraine, its people, or their language.
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- view mark — a mark stamped on antique armor or metalwork to indicate inspection and approval by the guild or by officials at the place of manufacture.
- vraicking — the act of gathering vraic
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- warp ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- warp knit — a fabric or garment so constructed that runs do not occur: knitted from a warp beam that feeds yarn to the knitting frame.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterlike — Resembling water.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.