9-letter words containing k, n, e, t, r
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- reef knot — a square knot used in reefing sails.
- rent book — a document that acts as a record of the regular amounts of money that you have paid as rent for accommodation
- rethinker — a person who rethinks
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- 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.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
- steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
- 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.
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streeking — the act of stretching one's limbs, as on awakening or by exercise.
- 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.
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tentmaker — a person who makes tents.
- texarkana — a city in NE Texas.
- the drink — the sea
- thickener — something that thickens.
- thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- tinkering — a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- tinkertoy — a children's toy construction set
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- trinketer — a person who deals secretly or surreptitiously.
- trinketry — trinkets collectively.
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- turducken — a deboned turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with a deboned chicken.
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- undertake — to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt: She undertook the job of answering all the mail.
- undertook — simple past tense of undertake.
- untracked — that is not or cannot be tracked or traced: untracked marauders of the jungle.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.