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

  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • likableness — The property of being likable, that which makes likable.
  • linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
  • money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • muskallonge — muskellunge.
  • muslin kail — barley broth or barley and vegetable soup.
  • nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
  • nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
  • nose tackle — nose guard
  • nutty slack — coal
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • 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.
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • rattlesnake — 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.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • 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).
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
  • 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.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • 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.
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
  • snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
  • 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.
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