11-letter words containing k, h, l
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leschetizky — Theodor [tey-uh-dawr,, -dohr,, thee-] /ˈteɪ əˌdɔr,, -ˌdoʊr,, ˈθi-/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Polish pianist and composer.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- leukorrheal — Relating to leukorrhea.
- lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
- lightsticks — Plural form of lightstick.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- makhachkala — an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Capital: Makhachkala. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- melchizedek — a priest and king of Salem. Gen. 14:18.
- milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- of that ilk — of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named
- old hickory — Jackson1
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- right-click — to depress the right-hand mouse button, as to display a menu.
- sales check — sales slip.
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler