9-letter words containing r, a, k
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- sri lanka — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Capital: Colombo.
- stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take arms — go to war
- take care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- take fire — to begin to burn
- take form — be shaped
- take over — the act of taking.
- take part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- tank trap — any obstacle, such as a number of concrete stumps set in the ground, designed to stop a military tank
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- tax break — If the government gives a tax break to a particular group of people or type of organization, it reduces the amount of tax they have to pay or changes the tax system in a way that benefits them.
- taxi rank — queuing area for hire cabs
- tea break — an intermission from work, usually in the middle of the morning or afternoon, for a cup of tea, a snack, etc.