12-letter words containing k, l
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cock lobster — a male lobster
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- cockieleekie — a soup made from a fowl boiled with leeks
- cockleshells — Plural form of cockleshell.
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- control knob — a knob on an electrical or electronic appliance for regulating heat, volume, etc
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- country folk — people who live in the country
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- cuckoo clock — A cuckoo clock is a clock with a door from which a toy cuckoo comes out and makes noises like a cuckoo every hour or half hour.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deckle-edged — having a deckle edge: deckle-edged paper for stationery.