9-letter words containing a, u, c, k
- fucking a — an emphatic exclamation of approval
- full-back — sports; player , position
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckamuck — (US, dialectal, possibly dated) Food.
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mud-caked — covered with mud or dirt
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.