13-letter words containing k, c, l
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- finback whale — rorqual
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
- jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.