10-letter words containing u, a, k
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt-naked — completely naked
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- carpsucker — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Carpiodes, as the quillback and the river carpsucker.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- chuck away — If you chuck something away, you throw it away or waste it.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- cuckoo ray — a fish, Raja naevus
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- eukaryotic — (biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.