12-letter words containing a, l, e, k, t
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- 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.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- 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
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- health check — a medical checkup
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
- heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha
- kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
- keep it real — avoid affectation
- keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.