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9-letter words containing k, r

  • prong key — a key or spanner with two prongs or projections which engage corresponding holes in the face of a nut or component to be turned for tightening, adjustment, etc
  • prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
  • proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
  • puckerood — ruined; exhausted
  • pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
  • punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • purselike — resembling a purse
  • quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
  • quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
  • quebecker — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
  • quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
  • quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
  • quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
  • quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
  • race-walk — to participate in race walking.
  • racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
  • rack rail — (in an inclined-plane or mountain-climbing railway) a rail between the running rails having cogs or teeth with which cogwheels on the locomotive engage.
  • rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
  • rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
  • rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
  • racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
  • racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
  • rackingly — in a racking manner
  • ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
  • rail link — a rail connection, as between two main routes
  • raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
  • rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
  • rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
  • rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
  • rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
  • ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
  • rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
  • ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
  • rare book — a book that is distinguished by its early printing date, its limited issue, the special character of the edition or binding, or its historical interest.
  • raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
  • rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
  • ravenlike — resembling a raven
  • razorback — a finback or rorqual.
  • re-embark — to (cause to) board a ship or aircraft again
  • re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
  • real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
  • rear deck — deck (def 12).
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