11-letter words containing a, k, u, r
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make up for — compensate
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muck-raking — If you accuse someone of muck-raking, you are criticizing them for finding and spreading unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone, especially a public figure.
- multi-track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
- quick march — a march in quick time.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- quick-march — a march in quick time.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- ruda slaska — a city in S Poland, NW of Katowice.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- scuff marks — marks made by scuffing
- sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.