10-letter words containing u, n, k, o
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- milk round — If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- nolichucky — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing NW and W to the French Broad River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nuku'alofa — the capital of Tonga, a port on the N coast of Tongatapu Island. Pop: 36 000 (2005 est)
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outranking — Present participle of outrank.
- outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- over-drunk — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pink pound — the money spent by homosexual people considered collectively
- plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- shikibuton — futon.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- stock unit — the tax basis for evaluating farmers' stock. Cattle, sheep, and deer are each given differing stock-unit values, the basic measure being the ewe equivalent
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- sunk costs — retrospective costs which have been incurred and cannot be recovered
- take up on — If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it.
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- tena korua — a Māori greeting to two people
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.
- tuck-point — to finish (masonry) with tuck pointing.
- turle knot — a special kind of knot for tying a leader, especially of gut, to an eyed hook or fly.
- unbeckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- unbespoken — not bespoken or arranged for
- under-work — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforsaken — past participle of forsake.
- union jack — a jack consisting of the union of a national flag or ensign, as the U.S. jack, which has the white stars and blue field of the union of the U.S. national flag.
- unknowable — not knowable; incapable of being known or understood.
- unlockable — to undo the lock of (a door, chest, etc.), especially with a key.
- unprovoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.