5-letter words containing a, k, u
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- pikau — a pack, knapsack, or rucksack
- pucka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- pukka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- pulka — a reindeer-drawn sleigh of Lapland, shaped like the front half of a canoe, in which a single rider sits with back against a vertical support and legs stretched forward.
- punka — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- quaky — tending to quake; shaky or tremulous.
- quark — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- rakus — a thick-walled, rough, dark lead-glazed Japanese earthenware used in the tea ceremony.
- rukwa — Lake, a shallow salt lake in SW Tanzania. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- stuka — a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.
- taluk — a hereditary estate.
- tunka — wax gourd.
- ukaea — United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- ukiah — a town in NW California.
- umiak — an open Eskimo boat that consists of a wooden frame covered with skins and provided with several thwarts: used for transport of goods and passengers.
- waulk — (transitive, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- yakut — a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- yurak — Nenets.