9-letter words containing k, o, r
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crock pot — slow cooker
- crock-pot — an electric cooker consisting of an earthenware pot inside a container with a heating element that maintains a steady low temperature, used as for simmering stews for several hours
- crocketed — (architecture) Having a crocket.
- crockford — short for Crockford's Clerical Directory, the standard directory of living Anglican clergy
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crokinole — a board game popular in Canada in which players flick wooden discs
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- crookback — a hunchback
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cuckoldry — the act of making someone's husband a cuckold.
- cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deck over — to complete the construction of the upper deck between the bulwarks of (a vessel)
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- disfrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfrock.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- door jack — a frame for holding a door while its edge is being planed.
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- doorknobs — Plural form of doorknob.
- doorknock — (Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- 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.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop keel — centerboard.
- drop kick — In sports such as football and rugby, a drop kick is a kick in which the ball is dropped to the ground and kicked at the moment that it bounces.