13-letter words containing k, u, l
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- 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
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- 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 .
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
- multi-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multiskilling — the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks
- 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
- mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- 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.
- nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).