9-letter words containing k, u, r, s
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- muckworms — Plural form of muckworm.
- mudsucker — a goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, of California, used as bait.
- multirisk — (of insurance) covering several risks
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- musk deer — a small, hornless deer, Moschus moschiferus, of central Asia, the male of which secretes musk: now rare.
- musk rose — a rose, Rosa moschata, of the Mediterranean region, having white, musk-scented flowers.
- musketeer — a soldier armed with a musket.
- nurselike — resembling or having the characteristics of a nurse
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outdrinks — Plural form of outdrink.
- outskirts — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outstrike — (transitive) To strike faster than.
- outstroke — a stroke in an outward direction.
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- rush-work — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.