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11-letter words containing k, l

  • doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
  • doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
  • double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
  • double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
  • double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
  • drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
  • drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
  • duck-legged — having legs that are unusually short: He crept up in a half-crouch that made him look duck-legged.
  • dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • eccles cake — a pastry with a filling of dried fruit
  • ekman layer — the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • eksi sozluk — (web)   ("Sour Dictionary") An online, Turkish, colaborative, hypertext dictionary.
  • electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
  • emblem book — a book of allegorical pictures containing a moral lesson, with an explanatory motto or verses
  • english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
  • enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
  • enniskillen — a town in SW Northern Ireland, in Fermanagh, on an island in the River Erne: scene of the defeat of James II's forces in 1689. Pop: 13 599 (2001)
  • eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
  • exoskeletal — Pertaining to the exoskeleton.
  • exoskeleton — A rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
  • factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
  • farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
  • featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
  • ferntickles — freckles
  • ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
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