16-letter words containing k, u, l
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
- to try your luck — If someone tries their luck at something, they try to succeed at it, often when it is very difficult or there is little chance of success.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- unlawful killing — Unlawful killing is used to refer to crimes which involve one person killing another.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
- up with the lark — up early in the morning
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
- wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
- world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington