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13-letter words containing l, a, k, e, s

  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • in-line skate — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • lake balkhash — a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
  • make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
  • mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
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