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14-letter words containing k, u, l

  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • neural network — artificial neural network
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • on the lookout — keeping watch
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • pull up stakes — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • ryukyu islands — a chain of 55 islands in the W Pacific, extending almost 650 km (400 miles) from S Japan to N Taiwan: an ancient kingdom, under Chinese rule from the late 14th century, invaded by Japan in the early 17th century, under full Japanese sovereignty from 1879 to 1945, and US control from 1945 to 1972; now part of Japan again. They are subject to frequent typhoons. Chief town: Naha (on Okinawa). Pop: 1 318 220 (2000). Area: 2196 sq km (849 sq miles)
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • smokeless fuel — fuel which burns without producing smoke
  • sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • stock solution — a concentrated chemical solution, diluted before using.
  • straddle truck — a self-propelled vehicle, having a chassis far above the ground, for carrying loads of lumber or the like beneath the chassis and between the wheels.
  • streuselkuchen — coffeecake topped with streusel.
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • takeout double — informatory double.
  • talk about sth — You can say talk about before mentioning a particular expression or situation, when you mean that something is a very striking or clear example of that expression or situation.
  • the silk route — an ancient trade route that linked Asia and the countries of the Mediterranean and was followed by Marco Polo when he travelled to Cathay
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • think out loud — to speak one's thoughts as they occur
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • turkey vulture — a blackish-brown vulture, Cathartes aura, from the southern U.S. to South America, having a bare, wrinkled, red head and neck.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
  • volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
  • voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
  • walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
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