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11-letter words containing k, u, r

  • frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
  • fruit drink — a (non-alcoholic) beverage made from fruit
  • fruit knife — a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.
  • fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
  • funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
  • furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
  • go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
  • goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
  • ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
  • groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
  • houseworker — a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hucksteress — a female huckster
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • 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
  • jack-up rig — an offshore drill rig or platform having a floating hull fitted with retractable legs that can be lowered to the seabed to elevate the hull above wave level.
  • jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
  • jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
  • 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
  • kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
  • katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
  • 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.
  • kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
  • 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).
  • kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
  • khmer rouge — a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
  • 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.
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