6-letter words containing k, r
- porker — a pig, especially one being fattened for its meat.
- pranky — inclined to play pranks.
- pricky — prickly.
- proker — a fire poker
- prusik — a sliding knot that locks under pressure and can be used to form a loop (prusik loop) in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- pucker — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- punker — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- quaker — a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quirks — Plural form of quirk.
- quirky — having or full of quirks.
- racked — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- racker — One who racks.
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- rackle — headstrong; rash.
- rajkot — a city in S Gujarat, in W India.
- rakery — rakish behaviour; profligacy
- raking — inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
- ramark — a radar beacon developed by the U.S. Coast Guard as a marine navigational aid.
- ranker — a person who ranks.
- ranket — a double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- rankin — Jeannette, 1880–1973, U.S. women's-rights leader and pacifist: first woman elected to Congress; served 1917–19, 1941–43.
- rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankly — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- reback — to provide (a book) with a new back, backing or lining
- rebook — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- rebuke — to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
- reckan — a chain, hook or bar for hanging a pot over a fire
- recked — to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause).
- reckon — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- recook — to cook (something) again
- recork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- redock — to dock (a vessel or spacecraft) again or (of a vessel or spacecraft) to dock again
- reeked — a strong, unpleasant smell.
- reeker — something that gives off a strong unpleasant smell
- reknit — to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
- reknot — to knot again
- relink — to link or connect again
- relock — to lock again
- relook — to look again
- remake — to make again or anew.
- remark — to say casually, as in making a comment: Someone remarked that tomorrow would be a warm day.
- repack — fill luggage again
- repark — to park (a vehicle) again
- reperk — to (cause to) perk or perk up again
- rerack — (in billiards) the act of replacing the object balls in the triangular rack to restart the game, esp when the previous game has not been completed but abandoned
- reseek — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- reskin — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
- resnik — Regina, 1922–2013, U.S. mezzo-soprano.