5-letter words containing k, u
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sculk — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- skuld — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- skulk — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skull — the bony framework of the head, enclosing the brain and supporting the face; the skeleton of the head.
- skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
- slunk — a simple past tense and the past participle of slink.
- snuck — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
- spuky — Chiefly Boston. a hero sandwich.
- spunk — pluck; spirit; mettle.
- stuck — simple past tense and past participle of stick2 .
- stuka — a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.
- stunk — a simple past tense and past participle of stink.
- sucks — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- sucky — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- sukuk — a financial certificate that conforms to Muslim strictures on the charging or paying of interest
- sulks — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- taluk — a hereditary estate.
- thunk — an abrupt, dull sound: the thunk of a shutting window.
- tokus — the buttocks.
- truck — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- trunk — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- tunka — wax gourd.
- tupik — (esp in the Arctic) a tent of animal skins, a traditional type of Inuit summer dwelling
- turki — the Turkic languages of central Asia, taken collectively.
- turku — a seaport in SW Finland.
- tusky — having tusks or tusk-like protrusions
- ukaea — United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- ukiah — a town in NW California.
- umiak — an open Eskimo boat that consists of a wooden frame covered with skins and provided with several thwarts: used for transport of goods and passengers.
- unked — alien or strange
- usbek — Uzbek.
- ushki — an archaeological site at Kamchatka, U.S.S.R., revealing a late Pleistocene culture producing bifacial points with affinities to those of western North America.
- uskub — Turkish name of Skoplje.
- uskup — Turkish name of Skoplje.
- uzbek — a member of a town-dwelling Turkic people of Turkestan and Uzbekistan.
- waulk — (transitive, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- wokus — wocas.
- yakut — a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- yeuky — itchy
- yucko — disgusting; unpleasant
- yucky — thoroughly unappetizing, disgusting, or repugnant.
- yukky — yucky.
- yukon — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- yupik — a member of any of three groups of Eskimos inhabiting western coastal Alaska from Prince William Sound north to Norton Sound, and St. Lawrence Island and the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of Siberia.
- yurak — Nenets.
- zukor — Adolph, 1873–1976, U.S. film producer, born in Hungary.