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

  • bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
  • bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
  • boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
  • boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
  • brainwork — intellectual effort
  • break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
  • breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
  • breakover — jump (def 51).
  • breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
  • brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
  • broderick — a male given name.
  • brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
  • brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
  • brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
  • brooklike — resembling a brook
  • brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
  • brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
  • brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
  • brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
  • buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
  • busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
  • chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
  • cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • 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.
  • corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
  • corkborer — a tool that cuts a hole in a stopper, allowing a glass tube to be inserted
  • cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • crookback — a hunchback
  • crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
  • cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
  • cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
  • door-buck — a sawhorse.
  • doorknobs — Plural form of doorknob.
  • doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
  • drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
  • dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
  • duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
  • duikerbok — duiker.
  • dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
  • fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
  • footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
  • fork bomb — (programming)   A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
  • forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
  • gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
  • gear knob — a gear lever
  • gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
  • goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
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