13-letter words containing c, l, a, k
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lackadaisical — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- 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 titicaca — a lake between S Peru and W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest large lake in the world; drained by the Desaguadero River flowing into Lake Poopó. Area: 8135 sq km (3141 sq miles). Altitude: 3809 m (12 497 ft). Depth: 370 m (1214 ft)
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- 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.
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- 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.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
- parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- 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 barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.