12-letter words containing k, u, d
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- knock around — 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.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- monks' mound — the largest of the Cahokia Mounds.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multiskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- pressed duck — 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.
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quick-drying — (of paint, concrete, glue, etc) that dries quickly
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- south dakota — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
- tuckered out — exhausted
- turtlenecked — having a turtleneck