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

  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shellcracker — redear sunfish.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
  • stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stock saddle — Western saddle.
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • touch-tackle — touch football.
  • trackability — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
  • wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • walkingstick — a stick used for walking
  • walnut creek — a town in W California.
  • wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
  • wesley clark — (person)   One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
  • you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself
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