9-letter words containing k, r, a, t, i
- kickstart — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- mark time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- maxiskirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- minitrack — a system for tracking satellites, space vehicles, or rockets by means of radio waves.
- mintmarks — Plural form of mintmark.
- packtrain — a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rib steak — club steak.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take fire — to begin to burn
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- taxi rank — queuing area for hire cabs
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- tie-break — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- tripitaka — Pali Canon.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- warp ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.