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12-letter words containing k, l, i, e, g

  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • middle greek — Medieval Greek.
  • milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
  • milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
  • milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
  • misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
  • nice-looking — Someone who is nice-looking is physically attractive.
  • nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
  • overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (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.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
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