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

  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
  • rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • shale shaker — A shale shaker is a moving screen which removes cuttings from the mud so they can be disposed of.
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shellcracker — redear sunfish.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • spark-killer — a device for diminishing sparking, consisting of a capacitor and a resistor connected in series across two points where sparking may occur in a circuit.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • take-up reel — (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.
  • tank trailer — a trailer truck or tractor-trailer with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
  • telemarketer — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • the kalahari — an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)
  • trailer park — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
  • trash talker — to use disparaging or boastful language.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • unremarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
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