10-letter words containing k, n, u, c
- 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).
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- 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.
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- 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
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- 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
- springbuck — springbok.
- 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
- sunk costs — retrospective costs which have been incurred and cannot be recovered
- sunk fence — a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.
- tank truck — a truck with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
- trunk call — a long-distance phone call.
- trunk curl — another term for sit-up
- tuck-point — to finish (masonry) with tuck pointing.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleneck — a high, close-fitting collar, often rolled or turned down, appearing especially on pullover sweaters.
- unbeckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undertrick — a trick that a declarer failed to win in relation to the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- ungimmicky — not gimmicky
- union jack — a jack consisting of the union of a national flag or ensign, as the U.S. jack, which has the white stars and blue field of the union of the U.S. national flag.
- unlockable — to undo the lock of (a door, chest, etc.), especially with a key.
- unpackaged — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- unpickable — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- unreckoned — not reckoned, noted, identified, or enumerated
- unshocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- unstacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- unticketed — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- untuckered — (of a woman or an item of women's clothing) not having a tucker or lace frill around the neck
- windsucker — a horse afflicted with cribbing.