12-letter words containing a, l, n, k
- monkey trial — John 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.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- nankeen lily — a lily, Lilium testaceum, having drooping, fragrant, pink-tinged, yellowish or apricot-colored flowers with recurved petals.
- nanoplankton — nannoplankton.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- 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.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (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.
- 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