10-letter words containing a, k, u
- matsutakes — Plural form of matsutake.
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- milk sugar — lactose.
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mukhabarat — (in Middle Eastern countries) a secret police force
- mule track — a track used by mules
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multitrack — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- naturelike — the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- plankalkül — (language, history) (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- quark star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quick clay — a water-saturated clay that changes rapidly to a fluid state when jarred or crushed, as by an earthquake or pile driver
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickhatch — a wolverine.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rajpramukh — (in India) the title given to a governor or raja of a state between 1948 and 1956
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer