9-letter words containing r, a, k
- pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premarket — of the period before a product is available
- prepacked — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- rack rail — (in an inclined-plane or mountain-climbing railway) a rail between the running rails having cogs or teeth with which cogwheels on the locomotive engage.
- rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- rail link — a rail connection, as between two main routes
- raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rainmaker — (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- rare book — a book that is distinguished by its early printing date, its limited issue, the special character of the edition or binding, or its historical interest.
- raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- re-embark — to (cause to) board a ship or aircraft again
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
- rear deck — deck (def 12).
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.