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12-letter words containing k, i, l, n

  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
  • rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • skillessness — the lack of skill
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • stanislavski — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • sydney silky — silky terrier.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
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