8-letter words containing k, u, r
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quirkily — having or full of quirks.
- quirking — Present participle of quirk.
- quirkish — (archaic) Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.
- rack out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- raurkela — a city in Odisha state, in E India.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- restruck — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- returnik — a person returning or intending to return to his or her own country, esp the former Soviet Union
- reuptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rock out — listen enthusiastically to pop music
- rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- rukeyser — Muriel, 1913–80, U.S. poet.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- run back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- runelike — resembling a rune or runes
- rushwork — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- ryojunko — former Japanese name of Lüshun.
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- spruiker — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squeaker — a person or thing that squeaks.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- stunkard — sulky
- subclerk — a clerk who is subordinate or assistant to another clerk
- suckener — a tenant of a sucken
- suckered — a person or thing that sucks.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- talukdar — a person in charge of a taluk
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- truckage — conveyance by a truck or trucks.
- truckful — the amount of something that can be conveyed in a truck
- trucking — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- truckman — a truckdriver.
- trunkful — the amount that a trunk will hold.
- trunking — the cables that take a common route through an exchange building linking ranks of selectors
- tubework — tubes collectively
- tuckered — to weary; tire; exhaust (often followed by out): The game tuckered him out.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- turncock — (formerly) an official employed to turn on the water for the mains supply
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- turnskin — (in folklore) a creature that can change its skin, esp a werewolf