10-letter words containing u, s, k
- hindu kush — a mountain range in S Asia, mostly in NE Afghanistan, extending W from the Himalayas. Highest peak, Tirich Mir, 25,230 feet (7690 meters).
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- house dick — house detective.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- houseleeks — Plural form of houseleek.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- hucksterer — huckster.
- huckstress — A female huckster.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- iskenderun — Formerly Alexandretta. a seaport in S Turkey, on the Gulf of Iskenderun.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jaruzelski — Wojciech (Witold) [voi-chekh vee-tawld] /ˈvɔɪ tʃɛx ˈvi tɔld/ (Show IPA), 1923–2014, Polish general and political leader: prime minister 1981–85; president 1989–90.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.
- jump spark — spark1 (def 2).
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- junketeers — Plural form of junketeer.
- junketings — Plural form of junketing.
- just folks — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- just think — You say just think when you feel excited, fascinated, or shocked by something, and you want the person to whom you are talking to feel the same.
- kafkaesque — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka: the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations.
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality
- keep house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
- kieselguhr — diatomaceous earth.
- kilojoules — Plural form of kilojoule.
- king truss — a truss having a king post.
- kiss up to — be obsequious towards
- kitakyushu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- kitesurfer — A person who kitesurfs.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- ku kluxism — the doctrines, theories, and practices of the Ku Klux Klan.
- kurrajongs — Plural form of kurrajong.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lucklessly — In a luckless way.