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9-letter words containing k, o, u

  • pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
  • pound key — a push button on a telephone or key on a computer keyboard that is marked with a pound sign (#).
  • poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • puckerood — ruined; exhausted
  • 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.
  • quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
  • quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
  • rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
  • rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
  • rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
  • roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
  • roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
  • rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
  • rule book — A rule book is a book containing the official rules for a particular game, job, or organization.
  • rush-work — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
  • ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
  • scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
  • scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
  • serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
  • shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
  • skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
  • smoke out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall
  • soul cake — a round, sweet bun or small, oval cake, traditionally made to celebrate All Souls' Day.
  • soul kiss — French kiss
  • soul-kiss — to give (someone) a soul kiss.
  • sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
  • sour milk — milk that has spoiled
  • southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
  • souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
  • speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • stake out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • stake-out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • stenokous — able to live or survive only within a limited range of environments
  • stick out — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stink out — to emit a strong offensive smell.
  • strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
  • stud book — A stud book is a written record of the breeding of a particular horse, especially a racehorse.
  • stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
  • sub-stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • 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.
  • sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
  • superjock — an extremely athletic person
  • taikonaut — an astronaut from the People's Republic of China
  • thank you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
  • thank-you — expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
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