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13-letter words containing k, u, l

  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
  • silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • truelove knot — a complicated ornamental knot, especially a double knot having two interlacing bows, regarded as an emblem of true love or interwoven affections.
  • tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • ugly duckling — an unattractive or unpromising child who becomes a beautiful or much-admired adult.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • utility truck — pickup
  • velikiye luki — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Pskov.
  • volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
  • walk out with — to court or be courted by
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • work-furlough — work-release.
  • working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
  • works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
  • young-looking — having the appearance of youth
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