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11-letter words containing l, a, c, k

  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
  • slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
  • slate black — a slightly purplish black.
  • smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • sock cymbal — high-hat
  • sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
  • spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
  • stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
  • stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
  • stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • tally clerk — a person, esp on a wharf or dock or in an airport, who checks the count of goods being loaded or unloaded
  • title track — The title track on a CD, record, or tape is a song or piece of music that has the same title as the CD, record, or tape.
  • tracklaying — (of a vehicle) having an endless jointed metal band around the wheels
  • tracklement — any savoury condiment or sauce served with meat
  • trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • uncheckable — not able to be restrained
  • unshockable — not able to be shocked
  • untrackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • vagal block — the obstruction of vagus nerve impulses by the administration of drugs, a treatment for reducing acid secretion by the stomach.
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
  • welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
  • whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
  • willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
  • winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
  • wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
  • workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
  • yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
  • yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
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