8-letter words containing k, o, u
- kullervo — (in the Kalevala) a slave who, after a series of tragic misadventures, commits suicide.
- kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- kurveyor — a trader who transports goods by ox cart
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- lock out — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- look out — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lookouts — Plural form of lookout.
- luck out — 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.
- make 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.
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- milyukov — Pavel Nikolaevich [pah-vuh l nik-uh-lah-yuh-vich;; Russian pah-vyil nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈpɑ vəl ˌnɪk əˈlɑ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1943, Russian statesman and historian.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- mollusks — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mousekin — a little mouse
- moussaka — a baked dish consisting of layers of sautéed slices of eggplant and ground lamb usually flavored with tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon, and covered with a custard sauce sprinkled with grated cheese.
- muck out — clear out: animal's living quarters
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- murksome — gloomy; dark
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskogee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- out sick — If you are out sick, you are not at work because you are sick.
- out-take — a segment of film or videotape edited out of the final version, as because of a technical error.
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- outlooks — Plural form of outlook.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.