11-letter words containing o, k, u, n
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- quick money — money that you make easily or quickly
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- skunk works — (usually lowercase). Also, skunk works, skunkworks [skuhngk-wurks] /ˈskʌŋkˌwɜrks/ (Show IPA). Slang. an often secret experimental laboratory or facility for producing innovative products, as in the computer or aerospace field.
- smoking gun — indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- square knot — a common knot in which the ends come out alongside of the standing parts.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- take out on — If you take something out on someone, you behave in an unpleasant way towards them because you feel angry or upset, even though this is not their fault.
- talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tena koutou — a Māori greeting to two or more people
- think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- tukey, john — John Tukey
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
- unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
- uncuckolded — not cuckolded
- undercooked — not cooked enough
- underlooker — a subordinate to the manager, particularly in mining
- underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- underworker — a person who underworks
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- unknowingly — ignorant or unaware: unknowing aid to the enemy.
- unlooked at — not looked at, investigated, or dealt with; disregarded
- unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
- unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- unrevokable — that may be revoked.
- unshockable — not able to be shocked
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- zhangjiakou — a city in NW Hebei province, in NE China: capital of the former Qahar province.
- zhoukoudian — the site of fossil-bearing caves near Peking, China, dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use.