10-letter words containing k, n, u
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- naturelike — the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- 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.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- nutcracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- over-drunk — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pink pound — the money spent by homosexual people considered collectively
- plankalkül — (language, history) (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- return key — the key on a keyboard which moves the cursor to the next line
- 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.
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- shikibuton — futon.
- skulkingly — in the manner of a skulk
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.