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9-letter words containing k, r, t

  • parrakeet — parakeet.
  • part work — magazine series
  • 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.
  • pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
  • patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
  • peak rate — the maximum tariff of charge, esp of phone calls made at particular times
  • peat reek — the smoke of a peat fire
  • 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
  • pink root — a disease of onions and other plants, characterized by pink, withered roots, caused by a fungus, Pyrenochaeta terrestris.
  • pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
  • pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • platemark — hallmark.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.
  • prestrike — of the period before a strike
  • prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • 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
  • 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:
  • quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
  • 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
  • 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
  • rethinker — a person who rethinks
  • retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
  • rib steak — club steak.
  • ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
  • rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
  • rickstick — a tool used when making haystacks or ricks
  • risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
  • 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.
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