9-letter words containing k, e, r, a
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- 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.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- homemaker — a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- 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.
- ice maker — machine that makes ice cubes
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- 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
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- karabiner — a D -shaped ring with a spring catch on one side, used for fastening ropes in mountaineering.
- 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.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- karyosome — Also called chromocenter. any of several masses of chromatin in the reticulum of a cell 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
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- keel-rake — Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
- keg party — a beer bust.