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11-letter words containing k, l

  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • stock clerk — a worker in a stockroom who is in charge of the materials and goods stored there.
  • stock level — the quantity or number of goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
  • stock split — the act or result of splitting stock
  • stock-still — completely still; motionless.
  • stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
  • stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • sucker list — a list of names and addresses of persons considered by a business, charity organization, etc., to be likely purchasers or donors.
  • sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
  • super-slick — very well-executed or presented
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • table stake — a stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • take a leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
  • take a walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talk out of — dissuade
  • talk turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
  • talkability — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
  • tardis-like — having an interior that is more spacious than could be imagined from looking at the outside
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • telekinesis — psychokinesis.
  • telekinetic — psychokinesis.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • ten o'clock — 10 A.M., 1100 hours
  • the kremlin — the citadel of Moscow, in which some government offices of the Soviet Union were located: it now contains some offices of the Russian government
  • the like of — any person or thing like
  • thelytokous — pertaining to or produced by thelytoky.
  • think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
  • thread silk — silk yarn produced by a silk throwster.
  • tickle pink — to please greatly
  • tiddlywinks — a game played on a flat surface, in which players attempt to snap small plastic disks into a cup by pressing the edges of the disks with larger ones.
  • tiggywinkle — a gene found in fish and belonging to a family of genes known as the Hedgehog family
  • time killer — a person with free time to spend.
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • title track — The title track on a CD, record, or tape is a song or piece of music that has the same title as the CD, record, or tape.
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
  • tracklement — any savoury condiment or sauce served with meat
  • trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
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