12-letter words containing k, l, a, t, c
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- health check — a medical checkup
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- mental block — inability to recall
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- 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.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.