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

  • in-line skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • james h. clark — Dr. James H. Clark
  • just like that — suddenly
  • kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
  • kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaiserslautern — a city in S Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
  • kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lacrosse stick — stick: for lacrosse
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
  • lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
  • locker-lampsonFrederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
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