10-Letter Words with O,N,K,U,_

• A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake.

• short thick highly seasoned sausage

• a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit

• full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

• suitable for rough use

• A hound for hunting deer.

• widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle

• a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)

• a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

• an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of