9-letter words containing k, a, t, r
- hamtramck — a city in SE Michigan, completely surrounded by the city of Detroit.
- 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.
- hat trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hat-trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- intrabank — Within a single bank (financial institution).
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky tar — jackatar.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- karatekas — Plural form of karateka.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- karnataka — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- keratitis — inflammation of the cornea.
- keratoses — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- keratosis — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- kickstart — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- knotgrass — A common Eurasian plant of the dock family, with jointed creeping stems and small pink flowers. It is a serious weed in some areas.
- korat cat — rare blue-grey breed of cat
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.