10-letter words containing k, u, r
- truck crop — a vegetable crop raised on a truck farm.
- truck farm — a farm or piece of land for the growing of vegetables and fruit for sale, especially to local or nearby markets.
- truck stop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- trunk call — a long-distance phone call.
- trunk curl — another term for sit-up
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- trunk line — a major long-distance transportation line.
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.
- tucker-bag — a bag used to carry food.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- turfskiing — the sport of skiing down grass slopes on skis outfitted with rollers.
- turkestani — of or relating to the central Asian region of Turkestan or its inhabitants
- turkey oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus cerris, of Eurasia, or Q. laevis and Q. incana, of the southern U.S., that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- turkey red — a bright red produced in fabrics by madder, alizarin, or synthetic dyes.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turle knot — a special kind of knot for tying a leader, especially of gut, to an eyed hook or fly.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleback — Archaeology. tortoise-core.
- turtleneck — a high, close-fitting collar, often rolled or turned down, appearing especially on pullover sweaters.
- ultraslick — extremely smooth or slippery
- un-awkward — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- under-work — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- underskirt — a skirt, as a petticoat, worn under another skirt or a dress.
- understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undertaken — to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt: She undertook the job of answering all the mail.
- undertaker — funeral director.
- undertrick — a trick that a declarer failed to win in relation to the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- unforsaken — past participle of forsake.
- unmarketed — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- unprovoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- unreckoned — not reckoned, noted, identified, or enumerated
- unremarked — not noted or noticed
- unstriking — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- untuckered — (of a woman or an item of women's clothing) not having a tucker or lace frill around the neck
- unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- upper deck — the uppermost continuous deck that is capable of being made watertight; freeboard deck.
- upperworks — the parts of a vessel above the waterline when fully laden
- walkaround — A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
- waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
- waterquake — The event in which an earthquake happens underwater, usually in an ocean or lake.
- windsucker — a horse afflicted with cribbing.
- work rules — a set of rules, usually established by one or more unions in an agreement with management, specifying the tasks to be done by each employee.
- work-study — an examination of ways of finding the most efficient method of doing a job, esp in terms of time and effort
- workaround — Computers. a strategy or technique used to overcome a defect or other problem in a program or system: This is a known bug in version 1.5, but a workaround is available.
- workhouses — Plural form of workhouse.
- wunderkind — a wonder child or child prodigy.
- yom kippur — a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.
- young turk — a member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist party that was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and was the dominant political party in Turkey in the period 1908–18.