9-letter words containing r, i, e, k, a
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- 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
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- 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
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- sabrelike — resembling a sabre
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- sarkiness — the quality of being sarcastic
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- seraskier — the Turkish military commander-in-chief
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- skim-read — to read quickly and superficially, in order to pick up the important or significant details
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- 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
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- 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.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take fire — to begin to burn
- tankering — a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- tie-break — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- tinkerman — a manager or coach who continually experiments by changing the personnel or formation of a team from game to game
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- view mark — a mark stamped on antique armor or metalwork to indicate inspection and approval by the guild or by officials at the place of manufacture.
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterlike — Resembling water.
- 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.
- 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.