8-letter words containing a, k, u
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- ducktail — DA.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- dunnakin — a lavatory
- fake out — to deceive or outmaneuver as by a feint, bluff, or deceptive act
- fake-out — prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
- farouk i — 1920–65, last king of Egypt (1936–52). He was forced to abdicate (1952)
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
- fauxhawk — An imitation of the Mohawk (=UK Mohican) hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- fukuyama — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan, NE of Hiroshima.
- fullback — a running back who lines up behind the quarterback and is farthest from the line of scrimmage.
- gajdusek — D(aniel) Carleton [kahrl-tuh n] /ˈkɑrl tən/ (Show IPA), 1923–2008, U.S. medical researcher, especially on viral diseases: Nobel Prize 1976.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- habakkuk — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- hanukiah — a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah
- hanukkah — a Jewish festival lasting eight days, celebrated from the 25th day of the month of Kislev to the 2nd of Tevet in commemoration of the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees following their victory over the Syrians under Antiochus IV, characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- headfuck — an experience that is wildly exciting or impressive
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- hunkpapa — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- junk art — sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.
- junk dna — DNA that consists of repeated sequences of nucleotide and has no apparent function
- junkhead — (slang) a junkie, drug addict.
- junkheap — A collection or pile of unwanted things.