9-letter words containing r, a, k
- voorkamer — the front room, esp of a Cape Dutch house or farmhouse
- vraicking — the act of gathering vraic
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- wakeboard — The board one stands on for wakeboarding.
- wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
- walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
- walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- wanamaker — John, 1838–1922, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- warp ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- warp knit — a fabric or garment so constructed that runs do not occur: knitted from a warp beam that feeds yarn to the knitting frame.
- water key — a lever to drain saliva from a brass musical instrument, as the trombone.
- water oak — an oak, Quercus nigra, of the southern U.S., growing chiefly along streams and swamps.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- waterlike — Resembling water.
- watermark — a mark indicating the height to which water rises or has risen, as in a river or inlet.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- waterwork — (arts) painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls.
- waxworker — A worker in the wax industry.
- waymarked — Marked with a waymark.
- weak verb — a regular verb
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- wine rack — a framework for holding a number of bottles of wine in a horizontal position
- winemaker — an expert in the production of wines.
- wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next
- work area — environment in which a job is done
- work back — to work overtime
- work camp — a camp for prisoners sentenced to labor, especially to outdoor labor such as roadbuilding or farming.
- work farm — a farm to which juvenile offenders are sent for a period to work, for disciplinary purposes or rehabilitation.
- workalike — (computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- workboats — Plural form of workboat.
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
- workmates — Plural form of workmate.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- workspace — space used or required for one's work, as in an office or home.
- worktable — a table with a work surface, often with drawers.
- workwoman — a female worker.
- wreakless — (obsolete) unrevengeful; weak.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.