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13-letter words containing a, n, k, l

  • killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kirkland lake — a town in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • kootenay lake — a lake in W Canada, in S British Columbia. 64 miles (103 km) long.
  • kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
  • kwazulu-natal — a province of NE South Africa; replaced the former province of Natal in 1994: service industries. Capital: Pietermaritzburg. Pop: 10 267 300 (2011 est). Area: 92 180 sq km (35 591 sq miles)
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lake onondaga — a salt lake in central New York State. Area: about 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • look and feel — (operating system)   The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
  • 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.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
  • make a living — earn money
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • 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
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
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