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

  • monkey trialJohn Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • take hold of — grasp, seize sth
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • touch-tackle — touch football.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
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