11-letter words containing a, k, e, l
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skilligalee — gruel
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smoke alarm — A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stroke play — medal play.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
- tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
- take a leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- take a walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
- tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
- tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside