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15-letter words containing k, l

  • franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
  • franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
  • great salt lake — a shallow salt lake in NW Utah. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km); 80 miles (130 km) long; maximum depth 60 feet (18 meters).
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
  • hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
  • horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • intelligent key — (database)   A relational database key which depends wholly on one or more other columns in the same table. An intelligent key might be identified for implementation convenience, where there is no good candidate key. For example, if the three-letter initials of a group of people are known to be unique but only their full names are recorded, a three letter acronym for their names (e.g. John Doe Smith -> JDS) would be an intelligent key. Intelligent keys are a Bad Thing because it is hard to guarantee uniqueness, and if the value on which an intelligent key depends changes then the key must either stay the same, creating an inconsistency within the containing table, or change, requiring changes to all other tables in which it appears as a foreign key. The correct solution is to use a surrogate key.
  • internal market — a system in which goods and services are sold by the provider to a range of purchasers within the same organization, who compete to establish the price of the product
  • jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
  • jekyll and hyde — a person marked by dual personality, one aspect of which is good and the other bad.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
  • karl-marx-stadt — former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz.
  • keeling islands — Cocos Islands
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kegel exercises — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
  • kernel sentence — a simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences: The sentence “Good tests are short” is made from two kernel sentences: (1) “Tests are short.” (2) “(The) tests are good.”.
  • kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
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