12-letter words containing k, o, l
- nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- office block — a large office building.
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the block — for sale at auction
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- public works — government-funded construction
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains
- rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.