10-letter words containing k, u, o
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
- cuckoo bee — any of several species of parasitic or inquiline bee the queen of which lays her eggs in the nest of the bumblebee or other species, sometimes killing the host queen, leaving her eggs to be raised by the workers of the nest
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cuckoopint — a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- dinkum oil — the truth
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- euromarket — economics
- figurework — work with figures or numbers
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- folk music — music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- funny book — comic book.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- group work — a method, used by professional social workers, of aiding a group or members of a group toward individual adjustment and increased participation in community activity by exploiting the mechanisms of group life.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- grunt work — work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.
- guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- 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.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.