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12-letter words containing k, r

  • laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
  • lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
  • lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
  • letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
  • leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
  • library book — a book owned by a library
  • light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • likely story — dubious account
  • lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
  • link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
  • linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
  • linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
  • linking verb — copula (def 2).
  • linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
  • loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • lover's knot — love knot.
  • luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • makarios iii — (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos) 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974).
  • make certain — ensure
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
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