7-letter words containing k, a, l
- leakily — In a leaky way.
- leaking — Present participle of leak.
- leukoma — a dense, white opacity of the cornea.
- likable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- likably — Alternative spelling of likeably.
- linkage — the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
- linkman — Adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- lockage — the construction, use, or operation of locks, as in a canal or stream.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- lockjaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockman — (Scotland, archaic) A public executioner.
- lockram — a rough-textured linen cloth.
- lugansk — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- mackled — Simple past tense and past participle of mackle.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- makable — Capable of being made.
- malakal — a city in E Sudan, on the White Nile.
- malarky — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- malinke — a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- malkins — Plural form of malkin.
- manlike — resembling a human being; anthropoid.
- maplike — Having the characteristics of a map.
- matlock — a town in England, on the River Derwent, administrative centre of Derbyshire: mineral springs. Pop: 11 265 (2001)
- milkfat — The lipids in milk.
- milkman — a person who sells or delivers milk.
- molokai — an island in central Hawaii: leper colony. 259 sq. mi. (670 sq. km).
- molokan — a member of an ascetic religious sect, founded in Russia in the 18th century by former Doukhobors, opposing sacraments and ritual and stressing the authority of the Bible.
- mudlark — Chiefly British. a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes, etc., in mud or low tide.
- mukalla — a seaport in SE Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden.
- nakedly — In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.
- nalchik — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in N Caucasia, N of the Georgian Republic. 4747 sq. mi. (12,295 sq. km). Capital: Nalchik.
- nkandla — the private residence of Jacob Zuma, South African President from 2009, south of the town of Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. The use of state funds to upgrade the property caused controversy
- norwalk — a city in SW California.
- oakdale — a town in E Minnesota.
- oakland — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- oakleaf — (often, attributive) The leaf of the oak.
- oaklike — resembling or having similarities to an oak leaf or tree
- oakling — an immature or not fully-grown oak tree
- oaklisp — (language) A portable object-oriented Scheme by K. Lang and Barak Perlmutter of Yale. Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations and a facility for dynamic binding. Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.
- oarlock — any of various devices providing a pivot for an oar in rowing, especially a swiveling, crutchlike or ringlike metal device projecting above a gunwale.
- oatlike — a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- odalisk — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- oilcake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- opelika — a city in E Alabama.
- outtalk — to outdo or overcome in talking.
- outwalk — to outdo in walking; walk faster or farther than.
- padlock — a portable or detachable lock with a pivoted or sliding shackle that can be passed through a link, ring, staple, or the like.
- palatka — a city in NE Florida.
- palikar — a Greek militiaman in the Greek war for independence against the Turks 1821–28.