9-letter words containing k, r, o, t
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- 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.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- 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.
- 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:
- 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
- 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 dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- 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.
- rocketeer — a person who discharges, rides in, or pilots a rocket.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- root knot — a disease of plants, characterized by galls or knots on the roots and stunted growth, caused by any of several nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- rootstock — Horticulture. a root and its associated growth buds, used as a stock in plant propagation.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- 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.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- 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.
- soft rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- steelwork — steel parts or articles.
- stickwork — a player's degree of competence or proficiency as a baseball batter, hockey or lacrosse player, etc.: Frequent practice improved his stickwork.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stockhorn — pibgorn.
- stockport — borough of Greater Manchester, in NW England.
- 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.