13-letter words containing k, r, l
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- market leader — most commercially successful company
- market letter — a publication containing information concerning market conditions, expectations, etc., especially one produced by a securities brokerage firm or other financial organization.
- marketability — readily salable.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- memorial park — cemetery.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- nickel centre — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk