11-letter words containing k, l
- relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rickrolling — the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink
- right-click — to depress the right-hand mouse button, as to display a menu.
- ripple mark — one of the wavy lines or ridges produced, especially on sand, by the action of waves, wind, or the like.
- ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rockefeller — John D(avison) [dey-vuh-suh n] /ˈdeɪ və sən/ (Show IPA), 1839–1937, and his son John D(avison), Jr. 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rocket sled — a sled propelled along a long track by rocket engines, for testing the effects of high rates of acceleration and deceleration.
- roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- roller rink — a rink for roller-skating.
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- ruda slaska — a city in S Poland, NW of Katowice.
- sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
- saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
- sales check — sales slip.
- sales clerk — shop assistant
- salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- scale maker — a person who makes scales for weighing
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- school book — School books are books giving information about a particular subject, which children use at school.
- school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
- school-book — a book for study in schools.
- schrecklich — frightful or horrible
- scissorlike — like scissors; moving, operating, or crossing in a manner suggesting the blades of scissors.
- sealed book — something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- self-seeker — a person who seeks his or her own interest or selfish ends.
- selkirk rex — a breed of large curly-haired cat
- semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- semiskilled — having or requiring more training and skill than unskilled labor but less than skilled labor.
- seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
- sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.