10-letter words containing k, a, e, l
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- flake tool — a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flankering — Present participle of flanker.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flat broke — having no money
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folk weave — a type of fabric with a loose weave
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- gatun lake — an artificial lake in the Canal Zone, forming part of the Panama Canal: created by the Gatun dam. 164 sq. mi. (425 sq. km).
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gill raker — (in fish) one of a series of stiff projections along the inner margins of the branchial arches that prevent food particles from passing through the branchial clefts.
- glassmaker — A person or company that makes glass or glass items.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- gluemakers — Plural form of gluemaker.
- go walkies — to be lost or stolen
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- grillsteak — a flat fried cake of minced beef or lamb that is usually grilled from frozen
- gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
- gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- hearselike — Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- interlaken — a town in central Switzerland between the lakes of Brienz and Thun: tourist center.
- jack plane — a plane for rough surfacing.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).