13-letter words containing k, h, l
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- 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.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- 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.
- roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shoot-to-kill — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to kill rather than disable
- shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
- shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
- siwalik hills — (Siwalik Range) a range in N India, S Nepal, and N Pakistan, in the S Himalaya Mountains.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
- spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
- spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).