12-letter words containing i, l, k, e
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health