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

  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • make a living — earn money
  • 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.
  • make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • market leader — most commercially successful company
  • market letter — a publication containing information concerning market conditions, expectations, etc., especially one produced by a securities brokerage firm or other financial organization.
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • 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.
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • 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.
  • musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
  • mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
  • network layer — (networking)   (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • 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
  • okanagan lake — a lake in SW Canada, in S British Columbia: drained by the Okanagan River into the Columbia River. Length: about 111 km (69 miles). Width: from 3.2–6.4 km (2–4 miles)
  • onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • parallel-park — to park directly behind another vehicle
  • parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
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