9-letter words containing u, a, k
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- graustark — a novel (1901) by George Barr McCutcheon about the romantic and melodramatic adventures of military and courtly figures in the fictional kingdom of Graustark.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- great auk — a large, flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, of rocky islands off North Atlantic coasts: extinct since 1844.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- i ask you — If you say 'I ask you', you are emphasizing how much you disapprove of someone or something.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- jackfruit — a large, tropical, milky-juiced tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the mulberry family, having stiff and glossy green leaves, cultivated for its very large, edible fruit and seeds.
- jujitsuka — A practitioner of any type of jujitsu/jujutsu martial arts, except judo.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kakebuton — a thin quilt or coverlet traditionally used when sleeping on a futon.
- kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- karakorum — a ruined city in central Mongolian People's Republic: capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
- kauffmann — Angelica (andʒeˈlikə). 1741–1807, Swiss painter, who worked chiefly in England
- kauri gum — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- khattusas — Hattusas.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.