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11-letter words containing a, l, k, i, n

  • mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
  • monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
  • muslin kail — barley broth or barley and vegetable soup.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
  • oneida lake — a lake in central New York. 20 miles (32 km) long; 5 miles (8 km) wide.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • pack animal — a mule, donkey, burro, or horse bred for vigor and hardiness and used for carrying heavy loads.
  • painkilling — of or relating to a drug or method of reducing or eliminating pain
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
  • sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
  • saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
  • salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
  • 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.
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • 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.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
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