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13-letter words containing k, l, a, g

  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lake onondaga — a salt lake in central New York State. Area: about 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
  • looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • make a living — earn money
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • okanagan lake — a lake in SW Canada, in S British Columbia: drained by the Okanagan River into the Columbia River. Length: about 111 km (69 miles). Width: from 3.2–6.4 km (2–4 miles)
  • onondaga lake — salt lake northwest of Syracuse, N.Y.: c. 5 sq mi (13 sq km)
  • packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • 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.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • 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.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • 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.”.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
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