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12-letter words containing a, k, e, l

  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
  • closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
  • clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • college park — a city in N Georgia.
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
  • cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
  • cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
  • cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
  • czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
  • damask steel — Damascus steel
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
  • dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
  • dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
  • dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
  • eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
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