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13-letter words containing h, a, l, k

  • klamath falls — a city in SW Oregon.
  • 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.
  • lake balkhash — a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
  • 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-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
  • rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
  • siwalik hills — (Siwalik Range) a range in N India, S Nepal, and N Pakistan, in the S Himalaya Mountains.
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
  • take the veil — to become a nun
  • talk the talk — to speak convincingly on a particular subject, showing apparent mastery of its jargon and themes; often used in combination with the expression walk the walk
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • 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.
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
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