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14-letter words containing k, u, s

  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • housing market — property trade
  • humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
  • jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • just like that — suddenly
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
  • karitane nurse — a nurse trained in the care of young babies and their mothers according to the principles of the Plunket Society
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • pull up stakes — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • quick response — fast reaction time
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