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12-letter words containing k, e, l

  • mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
  • music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
  • musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
  • nankeen lily — a lily, Lilium testaceum, having drooping, fragrant, pink-tinged, yellowish or apricot-colored flowers with recurved petals.
  • needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
  • newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
  • nice-looking — Someone who is nice-looking is physically attractive.
  • nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
  • nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
  • nickel steel — steel to which up to 9 percent nickel has been added.
  • nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
  • nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
  • nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
  • oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
  • office block — a large office building.
  • on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
  • on the block — for sale at auction
  • overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
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