9-letter words containing k, r
- checkrein — a rein usually running from the bit to the saddle, used to keep a horse from lowering its head
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clerklike — Resembling a clerk or some aspect of one; tidy, bureaucratic, etc.
- clerkling — a young or inexperienced clerk
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- clockwork — A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cock rock — an aggressive style of rock music performed by male bands
- cockcroft — Sir John Douglas. 1897–1967, English nuclear physicist. With E. T. S. Walton, he produced the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) and shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
- cockspurs — Plural form of cockspur.
- cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- color-key — color-code.
- con trick — swindle
- cookeries — Plural form of cookery.
- cooldrink — (South Africa) soft drink.
- copybroke — (security) /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- core leak — memory leak
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- cork tree — the cork oak, Quercus suber, of the beech family.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- corkborer — a tool that cuts a hole in a stopper, allowing a glass tube to be inserted
- corkiness — the state of being corky
- corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.