9-letter words containing k, r, t
- 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.
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
- storybook — a book that contains a story or stories, especially for children.
- 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.
- streeking — the act of stretching one's limbs, as on awakening or by exercise.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take arms — go to war
- take care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- take fire — to begin to burn
- take form — be shaped
- take over — the act of taking.
- take part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- tank trap — any obstacle, such as a number of concrete stumps set in the ground, designed to stop a military tank
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- tax break — If the government gives a tax break to a particular group of people or type of organization, it reduces the amount of tax they have to pay or changes the tax system in a way that benefits them.
- taxi rank — queuing area for hire cabs
- tea break — an intermission from work, usually in the middle of the morning or afternoon, for a cup of tea, a snack, etc.
- tea maker — a perforated, spoonlike object used as a tea strainer and having a hinged, convex lid.
- tea-maker — a perforated, spoonlike object used as a tea strainer and having a hinged, convex lid.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tentmaker — a person who makes tents.
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- texarkana — a city in NE Texas.
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- the drink — the sea