9-letter words containing o, a, k, r
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
- 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)
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- 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.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- 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
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
- 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.
- corkboard — a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crookback — a hunchback