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11-letter words containing k, r, u

  • muleskinner — (slang)A mule driver.
  • multi-track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • multistrike — (of a typewriter or printer ribbon) able to be struck several times in the same place before becoming unusable
  • multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
  • musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
  • musk turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Sternotherus, of North America, which, when disturbed, emit a musky secretion.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • necker cube — a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure
  • nerve trunk — the main stem of a nerve.
  • number keys — keypad
  • number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
  • nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
  • nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
  • nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
  • out of work — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outdrinking — Present participle of outdrink.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
  • park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
  • prusik loop — a loop formed with a sliding knot that locks under pressure in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
  • pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
  • punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
  • punk rocker — 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.
  • purple book — 1.   (publication)   The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2.   (publication)   The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
  • quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
  • quacksalver — a quack doctor.
  • quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
  • quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
  • quick march — a march in quick time.
  • quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
  • quick trick — a card, or group of cards, that will probably win the first or second trick in a suit, regardless of who plays it or at what declaration.
  • quick-march — a march in quick time.
  • quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
  • rebukefully — in a rebukeful manner
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
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