8-letter words containing k, l
- cowlneck — a style of neckline for a woman's garment having material draped in rounded folds.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- creakily — creaking or apt to creak: a creaky stairway.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- croakily — In a croaky manner.
- cuckolds — Plural form of cuckold.
- cufflink — Cufflinks are small decorative objects used for holding together shirt cuffs around the wrist.
- cultlike — resembling a cult
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- czarlike — Alternative spelling of tsarlike.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- deck lid — the hinged lid forming the upper surface of an automobile deck.
- deck log — a log filled in by the officer of the watch at the end of each watch, giving details of weather, navigation, unusual happenings, etc.
- deerlike — resembling a deer
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- delinked — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deskills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deskill.
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- devilkin — a small devil; a devil inferior to 'the' devil
- dickless — (slang) Without a dick; penisless.
- dickling — (vulgar, slang) A penis before circumcision.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- disclike — resembling a disc
- diskless — (computing) Without the use of floppy disks.
- disklike — Resembling a disk or some aspect of one.
- disliked — Simple past tense and past participle of dislike.
- disliken — to render dissimilar to
- disliker — One who dislikes.
- dislikes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dislike.
- divalike — (literally) like a spoiled diva.
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- domelike — Resembling a dome.
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- dovelike — Similar to a dove.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- droplock — a variable-rate bank loan used on international markets that is automatically replaced by a fixed-rate long-term bond if the long-term interest rates fall to a specified level; it thus combines the advantages of a bank loan with those of a bond