6-letter words containing a, k, u
- mokapu — a town on E Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- muktar — Alt form mukhtar.
- muskat — Obsolete form of musk cat.
- muzaky — (of music) having a light, bland sound
- nakuru — a town in W Kenya, on Lake Nakuru: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 264 000 (2005 est)
- nogaku — Nō.
- nu-kua — a Chinese goddess who repaired and restored order to heaven and earth when they were damaged, and who created the human race.
- nuxalk — a member of a Salishan Native Canadian people of British Columbia
- outask — (transitive) To ask or proclaim for the last time.
- padauk — any of several trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia and Africa, having reddish striped or mottled wood used for paneling, furniture, etc.
- padouk — any of several trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia and Africa, having reddish striped or mottled wood used for paneling, furniture, etc.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- puskas — Ferenc (ˈfɛrɛnk). 1927–2006, Hungarian footballer; played for Hungary (1945–56) and Real Madrid (1958–66)
- quacks — Plural form of quack.
- quacky — sounding like a quack
- quaked — Simple past tense and past participle of quake.
- quaker — a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
- quakes — Plural form of quake.
- quarks — 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.
- quokka — a small wallaby, Setonix brachyurus, inhabiting islands and swampy areas in southwestern Australia.
- rumaki — a dish of chicken liver and sliced water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
- saluki — (sometimes lowercase) one of a breed of black and tan, white, gold, or tricolor dogs resembling the greyhound and having fringes of long hair on the ears, legs, and thighs, raised originally in Egypt and southwestern Asia.
- sarouk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- squark — strange quark.
- squawk — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squeak — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- suakin — a port in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea: formerly the chief port of the African Red Sea; now obstructed by a coral reef. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- sukkah — a booth or hut roofed with branches, built against or near a house or synagogue and used during the Jewish festival of Sukkoth as a temporary dining or living area.
- sukuma — a member of an agricultural people of northwestern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, who constitute the country's largest population group.
- takeup — the act or process of taking up, making tight, etc.
- taluka — a hereditary estate.
- tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
- thakur — chief or master (used as a term of respectful address among the Kshatriya caste in India).
- tuskar — (in Orkney and Shetland) a peat-cutting spade
- uakari — any of several medium-sized, tree-dwelling Amazon basin monkeys of the genus Cacajao, the only New World monkeys having a short tail: all are now rare.
- ukerna — United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association
- unakin — not related or comparable
- unbark — to strip of bark
- uncake — to remove compacted matter from (something)
- unmake — to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
- unmask — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unpack — to undo or remove the contents from (a box, trunk, etc.).
- unrake — to unearth through raking
- untack — to unfasten (something tacked).
- upmake — to make up for (something lacking)
- uptake — apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
- uptalk — a rise in pitch at the end usually of a declarative sentence, especially if habitual: often represented in writing by a question mark as in Hi, I'm here to read the meter?
- uralsk — a city in W Kazakhstan, on the Ural River.
- wakeup — The act of waking up.
- walkup — Alternative form of walk-up.