9-letter words containing a, k, u
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckamuck — (US, dialectal, possibly dated) Food.
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mud snake — an iridescent black and red snake, Farancia abacura, of southeastern and south-central U.S., having a sharp, stiff tail tip used in manipulating prey into position for swallowing.
- mud-caked — covered with mud or dirt
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
- no wukkas — an expression used to express agreement or to convey that something is proceeding or has proceeded satisfactorily; no problem
- nukespeak — Informal. euphemistic language and obscuring jargon used in discussions of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, etc.: nukespeak that minimizes the risks of nuclear war.
- nukualofa — a Polynesian kingdom consisting of three groups of islands in the S Pacific, NE of New Zealand: a former British protectorate. About 270 sq. mi. (700 sq. km). Capital: Nukualofa.
- nunchakus — Plural form of nunchaku.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- outskates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskate.
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- pipsqueak — a contemptibly small or unimportant person; a twerp.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- push back — force to retreat
- quad bike — four-wheeled motorcycle
- quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quakingly — In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.
- queencake — a small light cake containing currants
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.