13-letter words containing c, a, k, l
- rock-and-roll — a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- 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
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social skills — ability to interact
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
- volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
- volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.