9-letter words containing k, r, u
- rebukeful — (of a person) quick to scold or reprimand
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- 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.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- 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.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- 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
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- 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.
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- 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.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- sunseeker — a person who travels to a warm and sunny climate, especially during cold months.
- 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.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- superjock — an extremely athletic person
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- surakarta — a city on central Java, in central Indonesia.
- surf duck — a scoter, especially the surf scoter.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- tiki tour — a scenic tour of an area
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- tow truck — wrecker (def 3).
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- trick out — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.