9-letter words containing i, r, k, u
- purselike — resembling a purse
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- 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:
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- tiki tour — a scenic tour of an area
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trick out — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
- truthlike — resembling the truth
- turf-like — resembling turf
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- ukrainian — of or relating to Ukraine, its people, or their language.
- unbricked — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- underkill — insufficient capacity to defeat or destroy an enemy, especially using nuclear force.
- underking — a ruler subordinate to a king
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- unwrinkle — to smooth the wrinkles from.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- ussuriisk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia.
- vicksburg — a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863.