12-letter words containing n, u, t, k
- k'ung fu-tzu — Chinese name of Confucius.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
- lake turkana — a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- mount katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- novokuznetsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in central Asia: an industrial center is located here because of coal deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- quick-acting — (of a drug, chemical, etc) taking effect quickly
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- take counsel — receive advice
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- tenure-track — of or relating to a college- or university-teaching job that can lead to a tenured position.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.