10-letter words containing k, n, u
- keep count — to keep a record of items, events, etc
- keep under — to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
- 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.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kibbutznik — a member of a kibbutz.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- king truss — a truss having a king post.
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- 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.
- knocked up — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- kremenchug — a city in central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- kremenchuk — a city in central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- krung thep — Bangkok
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- kubla khan — (italics) a poetic fragment (1797) by Coleridge.
- kudzu vine — a fast-growing Chinese and Japanese climbing vine, Pueraria lobata, of the legume family, now widespread in the southern U.S., having tuberous, starchy roots and stems: used for fiber, as food and forage, and to prevent soil erosion.
- kummerbund — a wide sash worn at the waist, especially a horizontally pleated one worn with a tuxedo.
- kundt tube — a gas-filled tube used to measure the speed of sound: when a membrane at one end is vibrated at a frequency that produces standing waves, a layer of powder forms lumps at the nodes.
- 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.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- lung fluke — any of various trematodes, as Paragonimus westermani, parasitic in the lungs of humans and other mammals.
- 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
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
- milk round — If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
- minus tick — downtick (def 2).
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.