13-letter words containing k, e, l, y
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- propeller key — feature key
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- silky terrier — one of an Australian breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, blue coat with tan markings and erect ears, a topknot, and a docked tail.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skittle alley — a place where the game of skittles is played
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- velikiye luki — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Pskov.
- walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- yankee doodle — (italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
- yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.