10-letter words containing k, u, d
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dull knife — (Tah-me-la-pash-me) died 1883, leader of the Northern Cheyenne.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- dunderfunk — a combination of ship's biscuit and molasses that is baked
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- fuck buddy — Slang: Vulgar. a person with whom one has a sexual but not a romantic relationship.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- grand duke — the sovereign of a territory called a grand duchy, ranking next below a king.
- grand turk — an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the West Indies. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hindu kush — a mountain range in S Asia, mostly in NE Afghanistan, extending W from the Himalayas. Highest peak, Tirich Mir, 25,230 feet (7690 meters).
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- house dick — house detective.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- iskenderun — Formerly Alexandretta. a seaport in S Turkey, on the Gulf of Iskenderun.
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- keelhauled — Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.
- keep under — to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
- kettledrum — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- knocked up — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- kudzu vine — a fast-growing Chinese and Japanese climbing vine, Pueraria lobata, of the legume family, now widespread in the southern U.S., having tuberous, starchy roots and stems: used for fiber, as food and forage, and to prevent soil erosion.
- kummerbund — a wide sash worn at the waist, especially a horizontally pleated one worn with a tuxedo.
- kundt tube — a gas-filled tube used to measure the speed of sound: when a membrane at one end is vibrated at a frequency that produces standing waves, a layer of powder forms lumps at the nodes.