12-letter words containing k, l
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- boskop skull — a portion of a human skull found in South Africa, of undetermined relationship and geological age: formerly associated with a hypothetical Boskop race
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- break a leg! — good luck!
- breeze block — a cinder block.
- breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- brooks's law — (programming) "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
- bulk modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance equal to minus the ratio of the applied stress (p) to the resulting fractional change in volume (dV/V) in a specified reference state (dV/V is the bulk strain)
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- call in sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
- chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- checkerbloom — a Californian malvaceous plant, Sidalcea malvaeflora, with pink or purple flowers
- choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- chuck-a-luck — a gambling game in which players bet on the way three dice, contained in an hourglass-shaped cage, will fall when the cage is pivoted
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- click beetle — any beetle of the family Elateridae, which have the ability to right themselves with a snapping movement when placed on their backs
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clickthrough — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop