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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.
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