9-letter words containing k, r, t
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bracketed — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakbeat — a type of electronic dance music
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cockcroft — Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
- con trick — swindle
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- cork tree — the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- cornstick — a corn muffin baked in the form of a small ear of corn.
- courtlike — reminiscent of the court in style or manner; elegant; courtly
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- 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.
- crankiest — Superlative form of cranky.
- cricketed — Simple past tense and past participle of cricket.
- cricketer — A cricketer is a person who plays cricket.
- 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.
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- dark star — an invisible star known to exist only from observation of its radio, infrared, or other spectrum or of its gravitational effect, such as an invisible component of a binary or multiple star
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- dirt bike — a small motorcycle designed and built with special tires and suspension for riding on unpaved roads and over rough terrain.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.