12-letter words containing k, o, l, a, n
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- take counsel — receive advice
- talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- thanks a lot — thank you
- thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
- thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself