12-letter words containing k, e, l, s
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- exoskeletons — Plural form of exoskeleton.
- fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
- fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
- inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
- jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha