10-letter words containing a, k, u, r
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- euromarket — economics
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- gluemakers — Plural form of gluemaker.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- grand duke — the sovereign of a territory called a grand duchy, ranking next below a king.
- grand turk — an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the West Indies. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- great skua — Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
- guru nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jaruzelski — Wojciech (Witold) [voi-chekh vee-tawld] /ˈvɔɪ tʃɛx ˈvi tɔld/ (Show IPA), 1923–2014, Polish general and political leader: prime minister 1981–85; president 1989–90.
- jump spark — spark1 (def 2).
- kalaburagi — a city in Karnataka state, in S central India.
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality
- karaya gum — the dried exudate of an Asian tree, Sterculia urens, used for finishing textiles and as a thickening agent in cosmetics and foodstuffs.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- khitmutgar — (in India) a waiter.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- kookaburra — an Australian kingfisher, Dacelo gigas, having a loud, harsh cry that resembles laughter.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- krita yuga — Satya Yuga.
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- kuropatkin — Aleksei Nikolaevich [uh-lyi-ksyey nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, Russian general.
- kurrajongs — Plural form of kurrajong.