9-letter words containing u, k, i
- muckiness — The quality of being mucky.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multirisk — (of insurance) covering several risks
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- muskiness — The characteristic of being musky.
- muskingum — a river in E Ohio, flowing S and SE to the Ohio River. 111 miles (179 km) long.
- nickelous — containing bivalent nickel.
- nurselike — resembling or having the characteristics of a nurse
- outdrinks — Plural form of outdrink.
- outskirts — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outstrike — (transitive) To strike faster than.
- overquick — too quick: Let's not be overquick to criticize.
- pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
- pipsqueak — a contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
- piłsudski — Józef (ˈjuzɛf). 1867–1935, Polish nationalist leader and statesman; president (1918–21) and premier (1926–28; 1930)
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- puppylike — resembling a puppy or the manner of a puppy
- purselike — resembling a purse
- push bike — A push bike is a bicycle which you move by turning the pedals with your feet.
- push-bike — a standard bicycle, operated by pedals rather than a motor.
- puttylike — resembling or characteristic of putty
- quad bike — four-wheeled motorcycle
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quakingly — In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.
- quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- 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.
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quicksets — Plural form of quickset.
- 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:
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- quicktime — (graphics, standard, file format, product) Apple Computer's software for playing audio and video. The QuickTime application is a free media player. QuickTime Pro is a paid-for version with editing ability. QuickTime's native format for audio and video is .mov but it can handle many others.
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.