9-letter words containing k, i, r, e
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- checkrein — a rein usually running from the bit to the saddle, used to keep a horse from lowering its head
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clerklike — Resembling a clerk or some aspect of one; tidy, bureaucratic, etc.
- clerkling — a young or inexperienced clerk
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cookeries — Plural form of cookery.
- corkiness — the state of being corky
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- crapelike — resembling crape
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- cricketed — Simple past tense and past participle of cricket.
- cricketer — A cricketer is a person who plays cricket.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- deerskins — Plural form of deerskin.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- demarking — demarcate.
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- diesinker — an engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
- dirgelike — (music) Resembling a dirge: slow and depressing.
- dirt bike — a small motorcycle designed and built with special tires and suspension for riding on unpaved roads and over rough terrain.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drecksill — a doorstep
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- eskişehir — an industrial city in NW Turkey: founded around hot springs in Byzantine times. Pop: 519 000 (2005 est)