10-letter words containing k, e, l, s
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lake sevan — a lake in Armenia at an altitude of 1914 m (6279 ft). Area: 1417 sq km (547 sq miles)
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- leafstalks — Plural form of leafstalk.
- lease-back — an arrangement by which a company sells a property and simultaneously obtains a long-term lease from the buyer for continued use of the deeded property
- leasebacks — Plural form of leaseback.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- like sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
- like stink — intensely; furiously
- likeliness — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- likenesses — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- lookalikes — Plural form of lookalike.
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lucklessly — In a luckless way.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
- lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- maskalonge — muskellunge.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- milk shake — a frothy drink made of cold milk, flavoring, and usually ice cream, shaken together or blended in a mixer.
- milk snake — a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes
- milkfishes — Plural form of milkfish.
- milkshakes — Plural form of milkshake.
- mistakable — capable of being or liable to be mistaken or misunderstood.
- mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- moose milk — homemade or bootleg whiskey.
- mosaiclike — (arts) Resembling a mosaic, particularly in composition.
- moses lake — a city in central Washington, on the eastern shore of Moses Lake.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- myslivecek — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1737–81, Czech composer.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.