9-letter words containing k, r
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- crookneck — any of several varieties of squash with a curved neck
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cuckoldry — the act of making someone's husband a cuckold.
- cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dark ages — the period from about the late 5th century ad to about 1000 ad, once considered an unenlightened period
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- dark star — an invisible star known to exist only from observation of its radio, infrared, or other spectrum or of its gravitational effect, such as an invisible component of a binary or multiple star
- dark-eyed — (of a person) having dark eyes
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- darklings — in darkness
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- dechunker — chunker
- deck over — to complete the construction of the upper deck between the bulwarks of (a vessel)
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- deerskins — Plural form of deerskin.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- dekagrams — Plural form of dekagram.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- demarking — demarcate.
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports