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9-letter words containing k, o, r

  • portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
  • post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
  • potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
  • pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
  • precooked — to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
  • precooker — a device for cooking or partially cooking food in advance of final preparations
  • presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
  • prog rock — a style of rock music originating in the 1970s and characterized by large-scale compositions, often on epic themes, in which musicians display instrumental virtuosity
  • prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
  • prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
  • prokhorov — Aleksandr Mikhailovich [al-ig-zan-der mi-kahy-luh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2002, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1964.
  • prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
  • prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
  • prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
  • proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • puckerood — ruined; exhausted
  • punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
  • rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
  • rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
  • rare book — a book that is distinguished by its early printing date, its limited issue, the special character of the edition or binding, or its historical interest.
  • raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
  • razorback — a finback or rorqual.
  • reckon on — count on, rely on
  • reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • 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
  • retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
  • revokable — that may be revoked.
  • reworking — revised version
  • reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
  • road bike — a bike designed to be ridden on roads, as opposed to a mountain bike
  • road book — a book of maps, sometimes including a gazetteer
  • road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
  • roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roadworks — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
  • rock band — heavy pop music group
  • rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
  • rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
  • rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
  • rock cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
  • rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
  • rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
  • rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
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