5-letter words containing k, u
- makua — a member of a people living in northern Mozambique and adjacent regions of Tanzania and Malawi.
- mauka — toward the mountains; inland.
- mucks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muck.
- mucky — of or like muck.
- mujik — a Russian peasant.
- mukha — Mocha.
- mukti — moksha.
- mulki — a native or inhabitant of the former Hyderabad State in India
- murks — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- musks — Plural form of musk.
- musky — of or like musk, as an odor: a musky perfume.
- muzak — Alternative capitalization of Muzak.
- nikau — Rhopalostylis sapida, a palm tree of New Zealand.
- nuked — a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- nuker — One who nukes.
- nukes — a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- nukus — a city in Uzbekistan, capital of the Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Republic, on the Amu Darya River. Pop: 325 000 (2005 est)
- nusku — a Sumerian and Babylonian deity, originally the vizier of Enlil.
- oakum — loose fiber obtained by untwisting and picking apart old ropes, used for caulking the seams of ships.
- okrug — An administrative division of some Slavic states.
- onkus — unpleasant, unattractive, or unacceptable; bad.
- otaku — (in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills.
- oukie — (South Africa, and, Namibia) guy.
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- pikau — a pack, knapsack, or rucksack
- plouk — a pimple
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plunk — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pouke — a stye or small pustule on the eye
- pucka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- puker — a person who vomits
- pukey — on the verge of vomiting; nauseated.
- pukka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- pulka — a reindeer-drawn sleigh of Lapland, shaped like the front half of a canoe, in which a single rider sits with back against a vertical support and legs stretched forward.
- punka — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- punky — Slang. of or like punks or hoodlums.
- quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- quaky — tending to quake; shaky or tremulous.
- quark — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- querk — (transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.
- quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
- quoke — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of quake.
- quonk — an accidental noise picked up on a microphone while broadcasting
- rakus — a thick-walled, rough, dark lead-glazed Japanese earthenware used in the tea ceremony.
- rukwa — Lake, a shallow salt lake in SW Tanzania. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- rurik — died a.d. 879, Scandinavian prince: founder of the Russian monarchy.
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.