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15-letter words containing k, l

  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
  • terminal market — an organized market in a city into which large quantities of agricultural produce, livestock, etc., are shipped for distribution and sale.
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
  • to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • unalaska island — a large volcanic island in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands. Length: 120 km (75 miles). Greatest width: about 40 km (25 miles)
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • unstatesmanlike — not resembling or befitting a political leader whose wisdom, integrity, etc win great respect
  • vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
  • viral marketing — a marketing strategy that focuses on spreading information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially by using unconventional means such as the Internet or email: Which online social networks can help with viral marketing?
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • walk (all) over — to defeat overwhelmingly
  • walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
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