9-letter words containing k, r, u
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- truckstop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
- trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- trunkwork — a clandestine action, esp by means of a trunk
- truthlike — resembling the truth
- turducken — a deboned turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with a deboned chicken.
- turf-like — resembling turf
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- tutworker — a person involved in tutwork
- uk garage — a type of electronic dance music originating in Britain in the 1990s
- ukrainian — of or relating to Ukraine, its people, or their language.
- unbricked — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- uncracked — broken: a container full of cracked ice.
- underbake — to bake insufficiently
- undercook — to cook for less than the recommended time
- underdeck — the lower deck of a vessel
- underkeep — to suppress
- underkill — insufficient capacity to defeat or destroy an enemy, especially using nuclear force.
- underking — a ruler subordinate to a king
- undertake — to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt: She undertook the job of answering all the mail.
- undertook — simple past tense of undertake.
- underwork — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- unfranked — (of a letter, mail, etc) not franked
- unprovoke — to remove provocation from
- unrebuked — to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
- unrevoked — not revoked, withdrawn, or cancelled
- untracked — that is not or cannot be tracked or traced: untracked marauders of the jungle.
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- unwreaked — not avenged or gratified
- unwrinkle — to smooth the wrinkles from.
- up-market — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- ussuriisk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia.
- vicksburg — a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- work-hour — any of the hours of a day during which work is done, as in an office, usually between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- worked up — of, for, or concerning work: work clothes.
- worked-up — excited; perturbed: She's all worked-up about the new deadline.
- workgroup — a group of people who work together
- workhouse — a house of correction.
- yarmulkes — Plural form of yarmulke.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)