9-letter words containing k, r
- brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridecake — a wedding cake
- briskness — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- broderick — a male given name.
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- brooklike — resembling a brook
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- brookline — suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 57,000
- brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- buckbrush — a flowering American shrub, Andrachne phyllantoides, of the family Euphorbiaceae
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- caretaken — looked after
- caretaker — A caretaker is a person whose job it is to look after a large building such as a school or a block of flats or apartments, and deal with small repairs to it.
- carjacked — Simple past tense and past participle of carjack.
- carjacker — A carjacker is someone who attacks and steals from people who are driving their own cars.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chalkrail — a troughlike molding or strip holding chalk, erasers, etc., under a blackboard.
- checkered — having a pattern of squares
- checkmark — a tick
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.