9-letter words containing k, r
- rebukeful — (of a person) quick to scold or reprimand
- reckon on — count on, rely on
- reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rednecked — (of an animal) with a red neck
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- reef knot — a square knot used in reefing sails.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- rent book — a document that acts as a record of the regular amounts of money that you have paid as rent for accommodation
- repackage — to package again or afresh, as in a different style, design, or size: The soap has been repackaged to be more eye-catching.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- reshevsky — Samuel, 1911–92, U.S. chess player, born in Poland.
- resinlike — resembling a resin, having characteristics of a resin
- reskinned — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
- rethinker — a person who rethinks
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- revokable — that may be revoked.
- reworking — revised version
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
- rib steak — club steak.
- rice cake — puffed-rice snack food
- ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- rickstick — a tool used when making haystacks or ricks
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- ring-dyke — a dyke having an approximately circular outcrop of rock
- riskiness — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverlike — resembling a river
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- road bike — a bike designed to be ridden on roads, as opposed to a mountain bike
- road book — a book of maps, sometimes including a gazetteer
- road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roadworks — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
- rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
- rock cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rock face — a perpendicular side of a rock
- rock fall — a fall of loose rocks