9-letter words containing k, r, u
- junk room — a room in a house that is used as a store room
- junkerdom — the Junkers as a group.
- junkerism — the spirit or policy of the Junkers.
- junketeer — a person who goes on junkets, especially regularly or habitually: weekend junketeers to Las Vegas.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- karakorum — a ruined city in central Mongolian People's Republic: capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kauri gum — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kerfuffle — Chiefly British Informal. a fuss; commotion.
- kerguelen — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- key fruit — a samara.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- kitesurfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kitesurf.
- kiwifruit — Alternative spelling of kiwi fruit.
- knucklers — Plural form of knuckler.
- knurl toe — French foot (def 1).
- kraurosis — atrophy and shrinkage of the skin, especially of the vulva.
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kreutzers — Plural form of kreutzer.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- krummholz — a forest of stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
- krummhorn — A medieval wind instrument with an enclosed double reed and an upward-curving end, producing an even, nasal sound.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- ku kluxer — a member of a Ku Klux Klan.
- kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- kurfuffle — Alternative spelling of kerfuffle.
- kurrajong — an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- like fury — violently; furiously
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- lurkingly — So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.