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12-letter words containing k, a, r, e, l

  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • markov model — (probability, simulation)   A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
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