9-letter words containing c, l, u, k
- 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.
- 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.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- knucklers — Plural form of knuckler.
- knuckling — Present participle of knuckle.
- 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.
- lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- lucky dip — game: picking out random prize
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- milk duct — a duct leading from the mammary gland to the tip of a nipple which carries milk to the nipple in breastfeeding women
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- 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.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- unblocked — to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage.
- unluckily — unfortunately
- unplucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.