8-letter words containing a, k, u
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- raurkela — a city in Odisha state, in E India.
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- sack out — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- seaquake — an agitation of the sea caused by a submarine eruption or earthquake.
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-up — a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shizuoka — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Suruga Bay.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slack up — to go more slowly
- sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
- soak out — to draw out (dirt, etc.) by or as by soaking
- souvlaki — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- speak up — talk more loudly
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squeaker — a person or thing that squeaks.
- stack up — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- stakeout — the surveillance of a location by the police, as in anticipation of a crime or the arrival of a wanted person.
- stunkard — sulky
- sukiyaki — a Japanese dish made with beef, chicken, or pork and usually containing soy sauce, bean curd, and greens, often cooked over direct heat at the table.
- sunbaked — baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- take out — the act of taking.
- talk out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talukdar — a person in charge of a taluk
- thankful — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- truckage — conveyance by a truck or trucks.
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- tuckahoe — Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
- tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- unalaska — an island off the coast of SW Alaska, one of the Aleutian Islands. About 75 miles (120 km) long.