9-letter words containing k, e, r, o
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- color-key — color-code.
- cookeries — Plural form of cookery.
- copybroke — (security) /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- core leak — memory leak
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- cork tree — the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.
- corkborer — a tool that cuts a hole in a stopper, allowing a glass tube to be inserted
- corkiness — the state of being corky
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- coworkers — a fellow worker; colleague.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crocketed — (architecture) Having a crocket.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deck over — to complete the construction of the upper deck between the bulwarks of (a vessel)
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- drop keel — centerboard.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- earcockle — A disease of wheat in which the ears blacken and contract.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- east york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 108,000
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- eukaryote — An organism consisting of a cell or cells in which the genetic material is DNA in the form of chromosomes contained within a distinct nucleus. Eukaryotes include all living organisms other than the eubacteria and archaebacteria.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- fieldwork — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- firelocks — Plural form of firelock.
- fireworks — Often, fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.