13-letter words containing u, a, k
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- tanjungkarang — a city in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; merged with Telukbetung to form the city of Bandar Lampung
- thousand oaks — a town in S California.
- to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
- trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- truck tractor — tractor (def 2).
- truck-tractor — a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
- walk out with — to court or be courted by
- winnepesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winnipesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
- yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
- yuan shih-kai — 1859–1916, president of China 1912–16.
- zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.