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Obviously many Japanese words consist of kanji characters plus hiragana since
the latter are used for okurigana:

  * 食べる
  * 水割り
  * 鷹の爪

Recently I'v started to discover a few words that use kanji characters plus
katakana too:

  * 段ボール
  * 紙パック

But I can't think off the top of my head of any words that are written with a
mixture of hiragana and katakana. **Are there any?**

For the purposes of this question I **don't** include katakana + **する** since
they are special and can be seen either as a single word or as pairs of words.

Since "word" can mean many overlapping concepts, for the purposes of this
question I mean word in the sense that dictionaries often have a dedicated
entry for it. (Linguists call these **lexemes** and listemes.)
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words orthography katakana hiragana spelling
Are there words which consist of katakana and hiragana letters together?
> あんパン(bread roll filled with red bean paste)、  
>  ピザまん(pizza flavored steamed bun)、  
>  じゃがバター(baked/boiled potato topped with butter)、  
>  みそラーメン(ramen with miso based soup)、  
>  エロい(horny)、  
>  ダサい(hickish),  
>  etc.
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Yes - the weird one for me was always サボる because it even conjugates normally.
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After reading the first couple of examples in the comments I Googled them and
discovered the English Wiktionary actually has an appendix of exactly these
terms:

> [Appendix:Japanese words written in mixed
> kana](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix%3aJapanese_words_written_in_mixed_kana)

But they must be quite rare or the appendix very incomplete, because it
currently only includes three words (plus one Proper noun):

>   * サボる (saboru, “to cut class”), from French sabotage + 〜る to make it a
> verb.
>   * デモる (demoru), from English demonstrate + 〜る to make it a verb.
>   * ググる (guguru, “to search the Web”), from Google + 〜る to make it a verb.
>
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>   * バグる → (technology) to be buggy, not work correctly; freezing; crashing
>     * スマホ、バグッちゃった！ → My smartphone froze/crashed/messed up!
>
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There's even an exceptional word which mixes hiragana, katakana, and kanji,
[くノ一](http://gogen-allguide.com/ku/kunoichi.html).

Generally speaking, words are written with mixed writing systems when there
are reasons to write different parts in different ways. (Sounds obvious, huh?)

For example, in Tokyo Nagoya's example of あんパン, the first morpheme comes from
Chinese 餡{あん}, and the second from Portuguese _pão_. パン may be written in
katakana, reflecting its origin, while hiragana is more natural for あん.

Another common reason to use katakana is for slang terms, including slang uses
of existing words (like モテる) and colloquial shortenings of existing words, as
in キモい from 気持ち悪い.

Any of these motivations for using katakana (foreign origin, slang,
onomatopoeia) can compete with the tendency to write endings like い and る in
hiragana, resulting in a mixed word.

Let's take a look at your example of ググる:

  * Here, the loanword _Google_ (グーグル _gūguru_ ) has been reanalyzed as a verb. Since Japanese has a lot of inflectional morphology, it's harder for words to jump categories; it still happens, but it's easiest for words that already end in _ru_ like this one (or ダブる "double", トラブる "trouble", etc.). 

As is usual for this sort of derivation, any long vowels are removed (グーグル
_gūguru_ becomes ググル _guguru_ ), and then the final _ru_ is reanalyzed as _r-
u_ , giving the godan verb ググる _gugur-u_. The ending _-u_ is usually written
in hiragana, and therefore the _r_ before it must be as well, but the rest of
the word remains in katakana.

If the source word doesn't end in _ru_ , then it needs to be added, as in ミスる
(from ミス "miss") or コピる (from コピー "copy"), and if the word is long it may be
clipped, as in the slang ハモる (from ハーモニー "harmony"). In these cases the words
still conjugate as godan, meaning that コピる is _kopir-u_ rather than _kopi-ru_
, even though the _r_ wasn't present in the original word. You can find more
colloquial examples [here](http://osaka-
kyoiku.ac.jp/_file/gakusei/kikaku/gakudayori/166/campus_kotoba.pdf).

Occasionally words ending in _i_ are reanalyzed as colloquial adjectives, and
quite rarely from _sii_ as well, as in the rare colloquial セクしい from セクシー, and
when this happens the suffix is written in hiragana. If _i_ isn't present, it
can be added. Less uncommonly い is added to existing words, which may be
shortened, as in グロい from グロテスク "grotesque". A more common example is エロい
"erotic".

So there are lots of different reasons words end up written with mixed writing
systems.
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Anime characters are often the case since children cannot read kanji.

ドラえもん ジャムおじさん タルるート
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Wiktionary lists
[イく](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%81%8F#Japanese) as slang to
come to climax ("to cum"), which has the first letter in katakana and the
second letter in hiragana. Unlike other katakana verbs listed in answers to
this question, this is derived from the Japanese word 行く, not a European word.
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