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12-letter words containing k, l, e

  • engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
  • eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
  • exoskeletons — Plural form of exoskeleton.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
  • fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
  • fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
  • flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
  • flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
  • flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
  • floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
  • floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
  • flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
  • flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
  • folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
  • fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
  • frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
  • franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
  • french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
  • fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
  • gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
  • geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
  • giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
  • giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • greek-letter — designating or of a student fraternity or sorority whose name is designated by a combination of Greek letters
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
  • health check — a medical checkup
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
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