8-letter words containing k, r
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- cockbird — a male bird
- cockcrow — daybreak
- cockered — to pamper: to cocker a child.
- cockerel — A cockerel is a young male chicken.
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- cocksure — Someone who is cocksure is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.
- cokernut — coconut.
- coldwork — The elimination of flaws and rough or sharp areas on the surface of blown or cast glass objects; usually achieved by some combination of grinding and polishing.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- cookroom — a room in which food is cooked
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- cordlike — a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- cork elm — any of several tall elms (genus Ulmus) of the E U.S., with corky ridges, as wahoo
- cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
- corklike — Resembling a cork or some aspect of one.
- corktree — type of evergreen oak tree
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corkwood — a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae
- cormlike — resembling a corm
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cornhusk — the outer protective covering of an ear of maize; the chaff
- cornsilk — The fine threadlike styles on an ear of corn.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- coworker — Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crackers — crazy; insane
- crackies — by cracky.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- crackjaw — difficult to pronounce
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
- crewneck — A crewneck or a crewneck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.