9-letter words containing u, s, k
- cup shake — wind shake.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- dock dues — payments made for the passing of goods through a dock
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- drunkness — Drunkenness.
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- ducklings — Plural form of duckling.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- duskiness — somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
- eduskunta — the Finnish parliament in Helsinki
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fish duck — merganser.
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- flushwork — decorative treatment of the surface of an outside wall with flints split to show their smooth black surface, combined with dressed stone to form patterns such as tracery or initials
- fukienese — a group of Chinese dialects, including Amoy and Taiwanese, spoken in Fukien province in southeastern China as well as in Taiwan.
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- funkiness — Jazz. having an earthy, blues-based quality or character.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- graustark — a novel (1901) by George Barr McCutcheon about the romantic and melodramatic adventures of military and courtly figures in the fictional kingdom of Graustark.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
- guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
- gumsucker — a native-born Australian
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- houseleek — Also called old-man-and-old-woman. a succulent plant, Sempervivum tectorum, of the stonecrop family, native to Europe, having reddish flowers and leaves forming dense basal rosettes.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.