8-letter words containing r, a, k
- coatrack — a rack or stand for the temporary hanging or storing of coats, hats, etc.
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crackers — crazy; insane
- crackies — by cracky.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- crackjaw — difficult to pronounce
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- crank in — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- croakers — Plural form of croaker.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darkmans — night-time
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darkroom — A darkroom is a room which can be sealed off from natural light and is lit only by red light. It is used for developing photographs.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- demarked — demarcate.