9-letter words containing k, r
- look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- look-over — a brief or superficial examination or reading.
- looker-on — a person who looks on; onlooker; witness; spectator.
- lookovers — Plural form of lookover.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- lorikeets — Plural form of lorikeet.
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lovemaker — Someone who makes love.
- lurkingly — So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- mandrakes — a narcotic, short-stemmed European plant, Mandragora officinarum, of the nightshade family, having a fleshy, often forked root somewhat resembling a human form.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- mark time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- mark-down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- markdowns — Plural form of markdown.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- marketeer — a person who sells goods or services in or to a market.
- marketers — Plural form of marketer.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- matchmark — a mark made on mating components of an engine, machine, etc, to ensure that the components are assembled in the correct relative positions
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- maxiskirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- mccormack — John, 1884–1945, U.S. tenor, born in Ireland.
- mccormick — Anne Elizabeth O'Hare, 1882–1954, U.S. journalist, born in England.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- mekometer — a device that accurately measures distance by measuring the polarization of a reflected beam of light