8-letter words containing k, u, r
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- krakatau — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- kullervo — (in the Kalevala) a slave who, after a series of tragic misadventures, commits suicide.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kursaals — Plural form of kursaal.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- kurveyor — a trader who transports goods by ox cart
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- luderick — An edible, herbivorous fish of Australasian coastal waters and estuaries.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- milk run — a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- muckrake — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- murkiest — Superlative form of murky.
- murksome — gloomy; dark
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- musicker — a musician
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- outbroke — Simple past form of outbreak.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outskirt — 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.
- outtrick — to outdo in trickery
- outworks — Plural form of outwork.
- overbulk — to dwarf or loom over in an oppressive way
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- prick up — ears: react to sound
- puckered — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- puckerer — a person who puckers
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.