9-letter words containing k, r, a, t
- platemark — hallmark.
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premarket — of the period before a product is available
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
- 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.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- 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.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
- sky train — elevated railway system
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- 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.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke