10-letter words containing l, a, k, c
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- block coal — bituminous coal that breaks into large lumps or cubical blocks.
- block lava — volcanic lava occurring as rough-surfaced jagged blocks
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
- blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
- brick wall — a wall made out of brick
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calicoback — harlequin bug
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- cat tackle — a tackle for hoisting an anchor.
- chain-link — designating a fence made of galvanized steel links that are continuously interwoven
- chalk line — a chalked string for making a straight line on a large surface, as a wall, by holding the string taut against the surface and snapping it to transfer the chalk.
- chalk talk — an informal lecture with pertinent points, explanatory diagrams, etc, shown on a blackboard
- chalk-talk — a talk or lecture in which the speaker illustrates points by drawing on a blackboard: The coach gave a chalk talk before the big game.
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- chalkiness — of or like chalk.
- chalkstone — tophus
- check rail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chilliwack — city in S British Columbia, Canada: pop. 60,000
- china silk — a lightweight silk fabric constructed in plain weave, often used for linings, blouses, slips, etc.
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- clankingly — With a clanking sound.
- clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
- clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- class mark — a value within a class interval, esp its midpoint or the nearest integral value, used to represent the interval for computational convenience
- class rank — a student's rank among others of the same year based on a numeric grade point average
- cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.