8-letter words containing k, r
- cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
- crickets — Plural form of cricket.
- crickety — Of or pertaining to crickets.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- croakers — Plural form of croaker.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- crockery — Crockery is the plates, cups, saucers, and dishes that you use at meals.
- crockets — Plural form of crocket.
- crockett — David, known as Davy Crockett. 1786–1836, US frontiersman, politician, and soldier
- crocking — British Dialect. soot; smut.
- crockpot — a brand of electric slow cooker
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crookery — illegal or dishonest activity
- crookest — sick or feeble.
- crooking — a bent or curved implement, piece, appendage, etc.; hook.
- cropsick — unwell as a result of excessive eating or drinking
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- crunking — Present participle of crunk.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darkmans — night-time
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darkroom — A darkroom is a room which can be sealed off from natural light and is lit only by red light. It is used for developing photographs.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deerlike — resembling a deer
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- dehooker — a device for removing a hook from a fish.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- demarked — demarcate.
- demarket — to discourage consumers from buying (a particular product), either because it is faulty or because it could jeopardize the seller's reputation
- derricks — Plural form of derrick.