13-letter words containing i, c, k, l
- hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
- hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
- kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
- killer t cell — a killer cell that destroys target cells only when specifically activated by helper T cells.
- killer t-cell — a type of T-lymphocyte that is responsible for killing cells that are infected by a virus
- killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- 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.
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- 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.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- 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 products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk