11-letter words containing k, l
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walky-talky — walkie-talkie.
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- weak-willed — having or showing a want of firmness of will; easily swayed.
- weed-killer — a herbicide.
- weedkillers — Plural form of weedkiller.
- well-cooked — having been cooked with skill so as to be pleasant to eat
- well-linked — (of a gene) exhibiting linkage.
- well-marked — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- well-worked — that has undergone working.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- whale shark — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 meters), having small teeth and a sievelike structure over its gills for catching plankton.
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- whiskerless — Without whiskers.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- wilkinsburg — a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- willowbrook — a city in SW California.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wookey hole — a village in SW England, in Somerset, near Wells: noted for the nearby limestone cave in which prehistoric remains have been found
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- wrigglework — decorative engraving of a metal surface with repeated zigzags.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
- yellow book — 1. (publication) Yellow Book, Jargon. 2. Yellow Book CD-ROM.
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- yeşil irmak — a river in N Turkey, flowing northwest to the Black Sea. Length: 418 km (260 miles)
- yoshkar-ola — a city in and the capital of the Mari Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Kazan.
- zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.