13-letter words containing d, a, l, e, k
- lake onondaga — a salt lake in central New York State. Area: about 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- leading block — lead block.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
- look and feel — (operating system) The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
- market leader — most commercially successful company
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- 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.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- red deer lake — a lake in Manitoba, Canada
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
- speed walking — power walking.
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
- walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- yankee doodle — (italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.