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9-letter words containing k, e, r, o

  • sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
  • shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
  • shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
  • shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
  • skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
  • sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
  • skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
  • smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
  • smoke-dry — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
  • snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • snockered — drunk; intoxicated.
  • snookered — a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
  • snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
  • soda jerk — a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.
  • sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
  • sollicker — force; momentum.
  • sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
  • spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • steelwork — steel parts or articles.
  • stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
  • stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
  • strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
  • strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
  • sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
  • superjock — an extremely athletic person
  • take form — be shaped
  • take over — the act of taking.
  • take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
  • talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
  • the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
  • thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
  • tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
  • tinkertoy — a children's toy construction set
  • tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
  • toe crack — a sand crack on the front of the hoof of a horse.
  • toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
  • towerlike — like a tower
  • toy maker — a person who makes objects that children play with, for example dolls or a model cars
  • tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
  • tutworker — a person involved in tutwork
  • twiforked — having two parts like a fork; bifurcate
  • undercook — to cook for less than the recommended time
  • undertook — simple past tense of undertake.
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