9-letter words containing k, o, r, i
- 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.
- slickrock — rock or a rock formation that is smooth and slippery.
- sollicker — force; momentum.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stickwork — a player's degree of competence or proficiency as a baseball batter, hockey or lacrosse player, etc.: Frequent practice improved his stickwork.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- 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.
- tiki tour — a scenic tour of an area
- tinkertoy — a children's toy construction set
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- towerlike — like a tower
- trick out — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- twiforked — having two parts like a fork; bifurcate
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- wireworks — an establishment where wire is made or put to some industrial use.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- work file — a temporary file that holds data during processing
- workalike — (computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- workerist — a supporter of working-class politics
- workpiece — a piece of work being machined.
- workprint — the first positive print of a film, assembled from the dailies: used in the editing process.
- wristlock — a hold in which an opponent's wrist is grasped and twisted.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- york rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the Knights Templar degree.
- yorkshire — Also called York, Yorks [yawrks] /yɔrks/ (Show IPA). a former county in N England, now part of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.