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9-letter words containing k, r

  • ku kluxer — a member of a Ku Klux Klan.
  • kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
  • kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
  • kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
  • kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
  • kurfuffle — Alternative spelling of kerfuffle.
  • kurrajong — an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.
  • kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
  • kyriarchy — A system of
  • kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
  • lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
  • lackering — to coat with lacquer.
  • lake erie — Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
  • lake eyre — a shallow salt lake or salt flat in NE central South Australia, about 11 m (35 ft) below sea level, divided into two areas (North and South); it usually contains little or no water. Maximum area: 9600 sq km (3700 sq miles)
  • lake-eyre — Lake, a shallow salt lake in S South Australia. 3430 sq. mi. (8885 sq. km).
  • lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
  • lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
  • lakeshore — lakefront.
  • landmarks — Plural form of landmark.
  • landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
  • lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
  • lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
  • lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
  • larkiness — the quality or characteristic of being larky
  • larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
  • larrikins — Plural form of larrikin.
  • larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
  • law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
  • lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
  • lay clerk — lay vicar.
  • leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
  • leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
  • leg break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
  • leg-break — a ball deviating to the off side from the leg side when bowled.
  • lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
  • lek-river — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River; the N branch of the lower Rhine. 40 miles (64 km) long.
  • licker-in — a roller on a carding machine, especially the roller that opens the stock as it is fed into the card and transfers the fibers to the main cylinder.
  • lickerish — fond of and eager for choice food.
  • like fury — violently; furiously
  • limericks — Plural form of limerick.
  • line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
  • link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
  • link farm — (file system, Unix)   A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
  • link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
  • linking r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
  • loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
  • lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
  • lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
  • lockmaker — a person who makes locks
  • look here — used when raising an objection
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