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9-letter words containing k, o, r

  • stockroom — a room in which a stock of materials or goods is kept for use or sale.
  • stockwork — a method of working in a mine where the ore is found in clusters rather than in veins
  • stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
  • stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
  • stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
  • storybook — a book that contains a story or stories, especially for children.
  • strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
  • strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
  • strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
  • stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
  • 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.
  • superjock — an extremely athletic person
  • swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
  • synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
  • tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
  • tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
  • take form — be shaped
  • take over — the act of taking.
  • take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
  • talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
  • tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
  • task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
  • the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
  • thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
  • thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
  • throwback — an act of throwing back.
  • 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
  • tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
  • toe crack — a sand crack on the front of the hoof of a horse.
  • tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
  • toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
  • top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
  • tow truck — wrecker (def 3).
  • towerlike — like a tower
  • toy maker — a person who makes objects that children play with, for example dolls or a model cars
  • track rod — the rod connecting the two front wheels of a motor vehicle ensuring that they turn at the same angle
  • trap rock — trap2
  • trick out — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
  • truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
  • truckstop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
  • trunkwork — a clandestine action, esp by means of a trunk
  • turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
  • tutworker — a person involved in tutwork
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