10-letter words containing k, a, n, u
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- kahanamoku — Duke Paoa [pah-oh-ah] /pɑˈoʊ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1968, U.S. swimmer and surfer.
- 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.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- 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.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- kubla khan — (italics) a poetic fragment (1797) by Coleridge.
- kuomintang — the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949, founded chiefly by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and led from 1925 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek; the dominant party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1949.
- kuropatkin — Aleksei Nikolaevich [uh-lyi-ksyey nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, Russian general.
- kurrajongs — Plural form of kurrajong.
- kurunegala — a city in W central Sri Lanka.
- lake huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- lunkheaded — Seeming to have a lunk for a head; obtuse.
- making out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- naturelike — the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- 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.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- plankalkül — (language, history) (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use