11-letter words containing k, l
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- slow cooker — an electric cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid for cooking meats, casseroles, etc., for several hours at relatively low temperatures, usually around 200° F (93.3° C).
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smoke alarm — A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.
- smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
- smokelessly — in a smokeless manner, without smoke
- smokerlyzer — a device for estimating the amount of carbon monoxide in the breath: used in testing whether or not people, esp schoolchildren, have been smoking
- smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- snakeblenny — any of several pricklebacks of the genus Lumpenus.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
- soft skills — emotional intelligence
- soldierlike — resembling a soldier
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- split skirt — a pair of women's shorts with flared legs resembling a skirt; culottes
- spokesmodel — an attractive or otherwise appealing person who is hired to speak on behalf of a company or product, as in a commercial.
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stary oskol — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Voronezh.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick