9-letter words containing c, o, k, u
- dock dues — payments made for the passing of goods through a dock
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- good luck — good fortune
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- knock out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockouts — Plural form of knockout.
- kosciusko — Thaddeus (Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko) 1746–1817, Polish patriot: general in the American Revolutionary army.
- 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.
- 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.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- muckworms — Plural form of muckworm.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.