9-letter words containing k, r
- flickered — Simple past tense and past participle of flicker.
- floodmark — A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
- flushwork — decorative treatment of the surface of an outside wall with flints split to show their smooth black surface, combined with dressed stone to form patterns such as tracery or initials
- flystrike — myiasis.
- folk hero — a hero to the common people of a country
- folk rock — a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.
- folk-rock — a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.
- folklores — Plural form of folklore.
- folkloric — based on or resembling folklore: folkloric music.
- folkright — a law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- footmarks — Plural form of footmark.
- for keeps — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- for kicks — If you say that someone does something for kicks, you mean that they do it because they think it will be exciting.
- forecheck — Play an aggressive style of defense, checking opponents in their own defensive zone, before they can organize an attack.
- foredecks — Plural form of foredeck.
- forehocks — Plural form of forehock.
- foreknown — Past participle of foreknow.
- forelocks — Plural form of forelock.
- forepeaks — Plural form of forepeak.
- foresaken — Misspelling of forsaken.
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- foreshock — a relatively small earthquake that precedes a greater one by a few days or weeks and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake.
- foreskins — Plural form of foreskin.
- foreskirt — the front skirt of an article of clothing (as opposed to the train)
- forespeak — to predict; foretell.
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- forestock — (firearms) forearm; handguard.
- forethink — to have prescience of
- foretoken — a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
- forjaskit — exhausted
- fork bomb — (programming) A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
- fork over — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
- forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
- forkiness — the state of being forky
- forklifts — Plural form of forklift.
- forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- forskolin — (biochemistry) A labdane diterpene produced by the plant Coleus forskohlii; commonly used in the study and research of cell physiology.
- fort knox — (William) Frank(lin) 1874–1944, U.S. publisher and government official.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fort polk — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W central Louisiana, SW of Alexandria.
- fossicker — Someone who fossicks.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- framework — a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
- frankable — (AU,finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
- frankfort — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- frankfurt — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- frankland — Sir Edward, 1825–99, English chemist: developed theory of valence.
- frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.