9-letter words containing a, k, u, r
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- uk garage — a type of electronic dance music originating in Britain in the 1990s
- ukrainian — of or relating to Ukraine, its people, or their language.
- uncracked — broken: a container full of cracked ice.
- underbake — to bake insufficiently
- undertake — to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt: She undertook the job of answering all the mail.
- unfranked — (of a letter, mail, etc) not franked
- untracked — that is not or cannot be tracked or traced: untracked marauders of the jungle.
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- unwreaked — not avenged or gratified
- up-market — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)