9-letter words containing k, u, c
- muckymuck — a person who is or looks very important
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mud-caked — covered with mud or dirt
- mudsucker — a goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, of California, used as bait.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- musk duck — Muscovy duck.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- nunchucks — Sometimes, nunchakus. a Japanese hand weapon for defense against frontal assault, consisting of two foot-long hardwood sticks joined by a chain or thick cord that stretches to body width.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- 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
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- 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.
- push back — force to retreat
- quebecker — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- queencake — a small light cake containing currants
- quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
- 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:
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product) Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.