9-letter words containing k, a, r, n
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- nicknamer — One who bestows a nickname.
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- nonmarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- nonskater — a person who does not skate
- nontalker — a person who does not talk, whether a small child who does not yet talk or an adult who is not talkative
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- one-track — having only one track.
- orkneyman — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- overfrank — too frank
- packtrain — a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parkinson — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
- partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pickaroon — to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- rail link — a rail connection, as between two main routes
- 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.
- rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- 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.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- samarkand — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.