11-letter words containing k, n, u
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- diving duck — any of numerous ducks, common in coastal bays and river mouths, that typically dive from the water's surface for their food (contrasted with dabbling duck).
- dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkenness — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dundee cake — a fairly rich fruit cake decorated with almonds
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- fair dinkum — dinkum.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
- fruit drink — a (non-alcoholic) beverage made from fruit
- fruit knife — a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.
- fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
- funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
- funnel cake — a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.