11-letter words containing a, k, e, l
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- madder lake — a strong purple-red color.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- mile-marker — a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
- nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- oneida lake — a lake in central New York. 20 miles (32 km) long; 5 miles (8 km) wide.
- opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.