10-letter words containing u, s, k
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- matsu-take — an edible fungus, Armillaria matsutake, of Japan.
- matsutakes — Plural form of matsutake.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- miccosukee — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- milk stout — a rich mellow stout lacking a bitter aftertaste
- milk sugar — lactose.
- minus tick — downtick (def 2).
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multiskill — requiring, involving or making use of several skills
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- musketeers — Plural form of musketeer.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- mussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quark star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
- rock music — heavy form of pop music
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- run a risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- saint luke — a fellow worker of Paul and a physician (Colossians 4:14). Feast day: Oct 18
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- sauerkraut — cabbage cut fine, salted, and allowed to ferment until sour.
- schuylkill — a river flowing SE from E Pennsylvania to the Delaware River at Philadelphia. 131 miles (210 km) long.