11-letter words containing a, s, k, e, l
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- eccles cake — a pastry with a filling of dried fruit
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
- exoskeletal — Pertaining to the exoskeleton.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- glass maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glass snake — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
- glass-maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glassmakers — Plural form of glassmaker.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- great lakes — group of lakes in North America
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- ijssel lake — a shallow lake in the NW Netherlands; formed from the S part of the Zuider Zee by the construction of the IJsselmeer Dam in 1932; salt water gradually replaced by fresh water from the IJssel River; fisheries (formerly marine fish, now esp eels). Area: (before reclamation) 3690 sq km (1425 sq miles). Estimated final area: 1243 sq km (480 sq miles)
- james clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- kaiser roll — a rounded, unsweetened roll, formed by folding the corners of a square of dough toward the center, often sprinkled with poppy seeds before baking.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keratolysis — the loosening or shedding of the horny layer of the epidermis.
- kettle base — a bombé base to a piece of furniture.
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
- klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kleene star — (text) (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.
- lake school — Lake Poets.
- lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
- lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- lassen peak — an active volcano in N California, in the S Cascade Range. 10,465 feet (3190 meters).
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.