11-letter words containing a, k, u, r
- south korea — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
- star-struck — captivated by famous people or by fame itself.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
- trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
- truth quark — top quark
- turk's-head — a turbanlike knot of small cords, made around a rope, spar, etc.
- turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
- unbracketed — not bracketed; not enclosed by brackets; not connected together by brackets
- unbreakable — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- undertaking — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- undrinkable — suitable for drinking.
- unearmarked — not earmarked; not set aside or marked for a particular purpose
- unrevokable — that may be revoked.
- untrackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
- uttarakhand — a state in NW India, created in 2000 from part of Uttar Pradesh. 19,739 sq. mi. (51,123 sq. km). Capital. Dehra Dun.
- vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- worksurface — A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.