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14-letter words containing k, u, l

  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
  • gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • just like that — suddenly
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
  • keep a lookout — If someone keeps a lookout, especially on a boat, they look around all the time in order to make sure there is no danger.
  • keep your cool — remain calm
  • kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • kiln run brick — any of various bricks of sufficient hardness to be exposed to the weather.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lake bangweulu — a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
  • lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
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