9-letter words containing k, n, u, c
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.
- muckiness — The quality of being mucky.
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- nunchucks — Sometimes, nunchakus. a Japanese hand weapon for defense against frontal assault, consisting of two foot-long hardwood sticks joined by a chain or thick cord that stretches to body width.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- queencake — a small light cake containing currants
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- tuck into — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- turducken — a deboned turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with a deboned chicken.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- unblocked — to obstruct (someone or something) by placing obstacles in the way (sometimes followed by up): to block one's exit; to block up a passage.
- 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.
- unchecked — having a pattern of squares; checkered (def 3): a checked shirt.
- uncracked — broken: a container full of cracked ice.
- undercook — to cook for less than the recommended time
- underdeck — the lower deck of a vessel
- unluckily — unfortunately
- unpacking — removal of items from suitcase, etc.
- unplucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- unshocked — not shocked