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11-letter words containing k, h, l

  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • school book — School books are books giving information about a particular subject, which children use at school.
  • school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
  • school-book — a book for study in schools.
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • shell shock — battle fatigue.
  • shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • silk finish — the appearance of paint, fabric etc with regard to its smoothness and light reflecting quality
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
  • sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
  • smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
  • spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • the kremlin — the citadel of Moscow, in which some government offices of the Soviet Union were located: it now contains some offices of the Russian government
  • the like of — any person or thing like
  • thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
  • think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
  • thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
  • uncheckable — not able to be restrained
  • unchildlike — not childlike; uncharacteristic of a child; not resembling a child
  • unshakeable — person, faith: firm
  • unshockable — not able to be shocked
  • unthinkable — inconceivable; unimaginable: the unthinkable size of the universe.
  • walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
  • welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
  • whale shark — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 meters), having small teeth and a sievelike structure over its gills for catching plankton.
  • whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
  • whiskerless — Without whiskers.
  • wookey hole — a village in SW England, in Somerset, near Wells: noted for the nearby limestone cave in which prehistoric remains have been found
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