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11-letter words containing k, a, i, l

  • black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
  • black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
  • black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
  • blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
  • click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
  • clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
  • clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
  • clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
  • cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
  • crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
  • das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
  • deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
  • dialkylzinc — (organic chemistry) Any organometallic compound of zinc containing two alkyl groups.
  • diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
  • enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
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