10-letter words containing k, u, o
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- miccosukee — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- milk round — If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
- milk stout — a rich mellow stout lacking a bitter aftertaste
- mock-tudor — of architecture which imitates the style of the Tudor period
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motortruck — a truck driven by a motor
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- old turkic — the Turkic languages or dialects spoken in Central Asia from the 8th to the 10th centuries.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- over-drunk — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pink pound — the money spent by homosexual people considered collectively
- plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- rock flour — glacial meal.
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock music — heavy form of pop music
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rough work — a preliminary work in preparation for a sketch, report, piece of work, etc
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.