11-letter words containing k, u, r, n
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- interleukin — Any of a class of glycoproteins produced by leukocytes for regulating immune responses.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kanga pirau — fermented corn used as food
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knee-sprung — (of a horse, mule, etc.) having a forward bowing of the knee caused by shortening of the flexor tendons.
- knock rummy — a variety of rummy for two to six players, in which a player can end a game by laying down a hand with any number of points in cards not included in sets.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- kumaratunga — Chandrika (ˈtʃʊnˌdrɪkə) Bandaranaike. born 1945, Sri Lankan politician: prime minister (1994); president (1994–2005)
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- leukotriene — a lipid, C 20 H 30 O 3 , produced by white blood cells in an immune response to antigens, that contributes to allergic asthma and inflammatory reactions.
- look around — examine surrounding area
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muck-raking — If you accuse someone of muck-raking, you are criticizing them for finding and spreading unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone, especially a public figure.
- muleskinner — (slang)A mule driver.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- necker cube — a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure
- nerve trunk — the main stem of a nerve.
- number keys — keypad
- number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.