11-letter words containing k, u, o
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk out of — dissuade
- tena koutou — a Māori greeting to two or more people
- the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
- thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- tukey, john — John Tukey
- tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
- turkey cock — the male of the turkey.
- turkey trot — an early ragtime one-step, popular in the period of World War I
- turkey-trot — to dance the turkey trot.
- unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
- uncuckolded — not cuckolded
- undercooked — not cooked enough
- underlooker — a subordinate to the manager, particularly in mining
- underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- underworker — a person who underworks
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- unknowingly — ignorant or unaware: unknowing aid to the enemy.
- unlooked at — not looked at, investigated, or dealt with; disregarded
- unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
- unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- unrevokable — that may be revoked.
- unshockable — not able to be shocked
- ust sysolsk — former name of Syktyvkar.
- utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
- vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
- whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- worksurface — A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately
- yakuza boss — a criminal who is a boss in the Yakuza
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
- youthquakes — Plural form of youthquake.