11-letter words containing k, u, r
- 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.
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- kulturkreis — formerly, a complex of related cultural traits assumed to diffuse or radiate outward as a unit in concentric waves or circles.
- kumaratunga — Chandrika (ˈtʃʊnˌdrɪkə) Bandaranaike. born 1945, Sri Lankan politician: prime minister (1994); president (1994–2005)
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- 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.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- lesser kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus imberbis, which inhabits the bush of Africa
- leukorrheal — Relating to leukorrhea.
- 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.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
- look around — examine surrounding area
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make up for — compensate
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- 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.
- motor truck — truck1 (def 1).
- moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- 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.
- mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.