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12-letter words containing k, l

  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • health check — a medical checkup
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
  • heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
  • hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
  • hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • holidaymaker — vacationer.
  • holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
  • holkham hall — a Palladian mansion near Wells in Norfolk: built 1734–59 by William Kent for Thomas Coke
  • holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
  • honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
  • hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
  • hotel worker — a person who works in the hotel industry
  • hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
  • hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
  • hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
  • hypokalaemia — Alternative form of hypokalemia.
  • iliamna lake — the largest lake in Alaska, in the SW part. 1022 sq. mi. (2647 sq. km).
  • impost block — dosseret.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • index-linked — index (def 25).
  • inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
  • intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
  • interlinking — Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
  • interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
  • jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
  • jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha
  • jk flip-flop — (hardware)   An edge triggered SR flip-flop with extra logic such that only one of the R and S inputs is enabled at any time. This prevents a race condition which can occur when both inputs of an RS flip-flop are active at the same time. In a JK flip-flop the R and S inputs are renamed J and K. The set input (J) is only enabled when the flip-flop is reset and K when it is set. If both J and K inputs are held active then the outputs will change ("togle") on each falling edge of the clock. JK flip-flops can be used to build a binary counter with a reset input.
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
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