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11-letter words containing k, i, l, t, e

  • monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
  • multimarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • multistrike — (of a typewriter or printer ribbon) able to be struck several times in the same place before becoming unusable
  • multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
  • multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • needlestick — Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.
  • nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • 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.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
  • rail strike — a strike by railway workers
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silk-tassel — any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (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.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
  • skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
  • stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
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