12-letter words containing k, e, l
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- lover's knot — love knot.
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- lucklessness — The state or condition of being luckless.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mental block — inability to recall
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- mullein pink — rose campion.
- multiskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.