12-letter words containing k, l, i, e
- kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
- lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- leukopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
- lifelikeness — Quality of being lifelike.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- likely story — dubious account
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- little-known — not widely known; not famed
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- lookie-likie — a lookalike
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- 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.