9-letter words containing k, r
- pickproof — (of a lock) designed so that it cannot be picked.
- picnicker — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
- pink root — a disease of onions and other plants, characterized by pink, withered roots, caused by a fungus, Pyrenochaeta terrestris.
- pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
- pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- platemark — hallmark.
- play park — A play park is a children's playground.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- pokeberry — the berry of the pokeweed.
- pokerwork — the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- precooked — to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
- precooker — a device for cooking or partially cooking food in advance of final preparations
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premarket — of the period before a product is available
- prepacked — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prickling — a sharp point.
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
- princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- prog rock — a style of rock music originating in the 1970s and characterized by large-scale compositions, often on epic themes, in which musicians display instrumental virtuosity
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- prokhorov — Aleksandr Mikhailovich [al-ig-zan-der mi-kahy-luh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1916–2002, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1964.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.