9-letter words containing r, a, k
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- repackage — to package again or afresh, as in a different style, design, or size: The soap has been repackaged to be more eye-catching.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- revokable — that may be revoked.
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- rib steak — club steak.
- rice cake — puffed-rice snack food
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- road bike — a bike designed to be ridden on roads, as opposed to a mountain bike
- road book — a book of maps, sometimes including a gazetteer
- road kill — Informal. the body of an animal killed on a road by a motor vehicle.
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roadworks — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rock cake — a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- rock face — a perpendicular side of a rock
- rock fall — a fall of loose rocks
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rock-face — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rock-hard — Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roof rack — A roof rack is a metal frame that is fixed on top of a car and used for carrying large objects.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- royal oak — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- sack race — a race in which each contestant jumps ahead while his or her legs are confined in a sack.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- samarkand — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- sarkiness — the quality of being sarcastic
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures