9-letter words containing k, r
- diesinker — an engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
- dirgelike — (music) Resembling a dirge: slow and depressing.
- dirt bike — a small motorcycle designed and built with special tires and suspension for riding on unpaved roads and over rough terrain.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- disfrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfrock.
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- door jack — a frame for holding a door while its edge is being planed.
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- doorknobs — Plural form of doorknob.
- doorknock — (Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
- drag king — a female who dresses as a man and impersonates male characteristics for public entertainment
- drag link — a link connecting cranks on parallel shafts.
- drag rake — a heavy rake with closely set, hooklike teeth, for use in digging for clams.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- drecksill — a doorstep
- dressmake — to make dresses
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop keel — centerboard.
- drop kick — In sports such as football and rugby, a drop kick is a kick in which the ball is dropped to the ground and kicked at the moment that it bounces.
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drop-kick — to score (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a drop kick.
- dropkicks — Plural form of dropkick.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- drunkenly — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunkness — Drunkenness.
- dry drunk — an alcoholic who is not currently drinking alcohol but is still following an irregular undisciplined lifestyle like that of a drunkard
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada