10-letter words containing a, u, c, k
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
- gunnysacks — Plural form of gunnysack.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kentuckian — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- koulibiaca — A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- mail truck — a large vehicle that is used to transport letters, packages, etc, by road
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mule track — a track used by mules
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multitrack — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.