12-letter words containing c, l, a, k
- flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
- flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- glacial milk — waters of a glacial stream in which particles of light-colored silt are suspended.
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- health check — a medical checkup
- helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
- kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- kona cyclone — a slow-moving cyclone occuring during the winter over the subtropical Pacific Ocean.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
- lake success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully