14-letter words containing k, a, r, e, l
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
- medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
- milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
- milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- multi-part key — compound key
- naked mole rat — a nearly hairless rodent, Heterocephalus glaber, of eastern African dry steppes and savannas, having two protruding upper and lower front teeth and living entirely underground in colonies, based on a single breeding female and specialized workers of both sexes.
- neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
- neural network — artificial neural network
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
- orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
- palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
- pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
- penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- permanent link — (web) A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
- pipeline break — (architecture) (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- railway worker — railroad employee
- rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.