8-letter words containing u, s, k
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- kushitic — a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
- kustanai — a city in N Kazakhstan, on the Tobol river.
- kuznetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- lookouts — Plural form of lookout.
- luckiest — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- lucky sb — You can use lucky in expressions such as 'Lucky you' and 'Lucky devil' when you are slightly jealous of someone else's good luck or success, or surprised at it.
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- mikasuki — 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.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mollusks — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mousekin — a little mouse
- moussaka — a baked dish consisting of layers of sautéed slices of eggplant and ground lamb usually flavored with tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon, and covered with a custard sauce sprinkled with grated cheese.
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- murkiest — Superlative form of murky.
- murksome — gloomy; dark
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- musicker — a musician
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- muskogee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- numskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- nunataks — Plural form of nunatak.
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- out sick — If you are out sick, you are not at work because you are sick.
- outlooks — Plural form of outlook.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outskate — (ice hockey, skating) To skate better than another skater.
- outskirt — 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.