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10-letter words containing k, i, c, u

  • miccosukee — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
  • michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
  • microquake — Microearthquake.
  • milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
  • milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
  • minus tick — downtick (def 2).
  • muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
  • multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
  • multitrack — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • old turkic — the Turkic languages or dialects spoken in Central Asia from the 8th to the 10th centuries.
  • pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-me-up — an alcoholic drink taken to restore one's energy or good spirits.
  • pickup arm — tone arm.
  • pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • quackishly — In a quackish manner.
  • quick clay — a water-saturated clay that changes rapidly to a fluid state when jarred or crushed, as by an earthquake or pile driver
  • quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
  • quick fire — rapid continuous gunfire, esp at a moving target
  • quick kick — a punt, usually on second or third down, made from an offensive formation not usually used for kicking, intended to go beyond the opposing safety men in order to prevent a possible runback.
  • quick time — Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 cm), are taken in a minute.
  • quick-fire — firing or equipped for firing rapidly, especially at moving targets.
  • quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
  • quickhatch — a wolverine.
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
  • quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
  • quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
  • quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
  • rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
  • rock music — heavy form of pop music
  • rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
  • saucerlike — resembling a saucer
  • schuylkill — a river flowing SE from E Pennsylvania to the Delaware River at Philadelphia. 131 miles (210 km) long.
  • shakuhachi — a wooden Japanese end-blown flute with four holes in front and one at the back
  • sick puppy — mentally ill or depraved person
  • slack suit — a man's suit for casual wear consisting of slacks and a matching shirt or loose-fitting jacket.
  • springbuck — springbok.
  • squib kick — a kickoff that is purposely low so it will wobble and bounce along the ground, making it hard to field and return.
  • sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
  • stock unit — the tax basis for evaluating farmers' stock. Cattle, sheep, and deer are each given differing stock-unit values, the basic measure being the ewe equivalent
  • stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
  • suckerfish — remora.
  • superthick — extremely thick
  • taxi truck — a truck with a driver that can be hired
  • track suit — 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.
  • trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
  • trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
  • tuck-point — to finish (masonry) with tuck pointing.
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