9-letter words containing l, u, k, e
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- kerfuffle — Chiefly British Informal. a fuss; commotion.
- kerguelen — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- kettleful — An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kilojoule — An SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 joules.
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- knucklers — Plural form of knuckler.
- knurl toe — French foot (def 1).
- ku kluxer — a member of a Ku Klux Klan.
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- kulebyaka — coulibiac.
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kurfuffle — Alternative spelling of kerfuffle.
- lake kivu — a lake in central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda at an altitude of 1460 m (4790 ft). Area: 2698 sq km (1042 sq miles). Depth: (maximum) 475 m (1558 ft)
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- lebkuchen — a hard, chewy or brittle Christmas cookie, usually flavored with honey and spices and containing nuts and citron.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- leukaemia — (UK) alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- leukemoid — resembling leukaemia
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leukotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- like fury — violently; furiously
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
- mouselike — any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- mouthlike — Resembling a mouth or some aspect of one.
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- muskmelon — a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nurselike — resembling or having the characteristics of a nurse
- outlooked — Simple past tense and past participle of outlook.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- puppylike — resembling a puppy or the manner of a puppy