12-letter words containing u, k, i
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
- running joke — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
- running kick — a kick made (to something or somebody) after running a short distance
- running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stick it out — to carry on or endure something until it is ended
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
- sutta pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- tip-up truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
- truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
- trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- turn a trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
- unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
- unblinkingly — not blinking.
- underkingdom — the domain of an underking
- underskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.