9-letter words containing a, b, u, k
- full-back — sports; player , position
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kakebuton — a thin quilt or coverlet traditionally used when sleeping on a futon.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- kulebyaka — coulibiac.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- push back — force to retreat
- quad bike — four-wheeled motorcycle
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- unbespeak — to annul or cancel a request
- underbake — to bake insufficiently
- unlikable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- unmakable — not capable of being made
- walkabout — Chiefly British. a walking tour. an informal public stroll taken by members of the royal family or by a political figure for the purpose of greeting and being seen by the public.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.