9-letter words containing r, u, c, k
- krautrock — (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- muckworms — Plural form of muckworm.
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mudsucker — a goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, of California, used as bait.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- 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.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- quebecker — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- superjock — an extremely athletic person
- surf duck — a scoter, especially the surf scoter.
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- tow truck — wrecker (def 3).
- tracksuit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.