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

  • peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
  • quacksalver — a quack doctor.
  • rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • sales check — sales slip.
  • sales clerk — shop assistant
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • scale maker — a person who makes scales for weighing
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • seneca lake — a lake in W New York: one of the Finger Lakes. 35 miles (56 km) long.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • simnel cake — any of several kinds of rich fruitcake covered with almond paste.
  • singletrack — (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.
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
  • slack-baked — improperly baked.
  • slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • slate black — a slightly purplish black.
  • smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
  • snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • unshockable — not able to be shocked
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • 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.
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