11-letter words containing a, k, u
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
- charm quark — charmed quark
- chickamauga — creek in NW Ga.: site of a Civil War battle (Sept., 1863) in which Confederate forces routed the Union army
- chikungunya — A viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- duck's arse — a hairstyle in which the hair is swept back to a point at the nape of the neck, resembling a duck's tail