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12-letter words containing k, u, l

  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • 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.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • 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)
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • skullduggery — skulduggery.
  • south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • take-up reel — (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • 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.
  • touch-tackle — touch football.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • turtlenecked — having a turtleneck
  • umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • unblinkingly — not blinking.
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • underskilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • unkindliness — an unkindly nature or quality
  • unlikelihood — the state of being unlikely; improbability.
  • unlooked-for — not expected, anticipated, or foreseen: They were confronted with an unlooked-for situation.
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
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