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12-letter words containing k, l, e

  • crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
  • cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
  • cryptolocker — (security)   The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • 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.
  • cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
  • cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
  • cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
  • czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
  • damask steel — Damascus steel
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
  • dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
  • dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
  • 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
  • deckle-edged — having a deckle edge: deckle-edged paper for stationery.
  • deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
  • deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
  • dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
  • docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
  • eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
  • elkhorn fern — a tropical fern with a large leaf like an elk's horn
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
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