11-letter words containing k, a, n, u
- muck-raking — If you accuse someone of muck-raking, you are criticizing them for finding and spreading unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone, especially a public figure.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- muslin kail — barley broth or barley and vegetable soup.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- nutty slack — coal
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- tena koutou — a Māori greeting to two or more people
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
- turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
- tutankhamen — 14th century b.c, a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty.
- unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
- unbracketed — not bracketed; not enclosed by brackets; not connected together by brackets
- unbreakable — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.