13-letter words containing a, l, s, k
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety