13-letter words containing c, l, a, k
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- crayola books — (publication) A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- digital clock — a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- finback whale — rorqual
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- 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.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
- 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.