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

  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
  • break a leg — to performer: good luck
  • break loose — to free oneself by force
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
  • cache block — cache line
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • call market — the market for lending call money.
  • candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • cartoonlike — cartoonish
  • castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
  • castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
  • cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.
  • cattle-cake — concentrated food for cattle in the form of cakes
  • cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
  • clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
  • clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
  • clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
  • clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
  • cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
  • close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
  • coral snake — any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
  • crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
  • crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
  • crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.
  • crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
  • cycle track — a special path created for cyclists to use
  • cycloalkane — any saturated hydrocarbon similar to an alkane but having a cyclic molecular structure and the general formula CnH2n
  • cycloalkene — (organic chemistry) Any unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
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