9-letter words containing r, a, k
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- homemaker — a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
- horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- ice maker — machine that makes ice cubes
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- intertask — Between tasks.
- intrabank — Within a single bank (financial institution).
- iron mask — an iron covering for the face, supposedly used in the past to conceal the identity of a well-known prisoner
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- jack arch — flat arch.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky tar — jackatar.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jazz rock — a style of music that combines jazz and rock
- jazz-rock — music that combines elements of both jazz and rock and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jim clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kaffraria — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- kaiserism — autocratic rule, like that of a German kaiser.
- kala-azar — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- kalamkari — A type of cotton cloth printed by hand, originally made in southern India.
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- kamilaroi — an Australian aboriginal language spoken in northern New South Wales.
- kangaroos — Plural form of kangaroo.