9-Letter Words Containing: A,P,U,K

• an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column

• a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine

• large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives

• A form of packaging containing multiple individual packages of a single product.

• A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

• A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

• To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

• a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back

• (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops)

• The part of an internal combustion engine which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke.

• Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.

• remove from its packing

• A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.

• small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees

• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

• financially ruined

• reduce to bankruptcy