11-letter words containing l, a, k, m
- kamelaukion — a tall, black, brimless, flat-topped hat, worn by the clergy of the Eastern Church.
- keelboatman — a member of the crew of a keelboat.
- kentia palm — a palm, Howea forsterana, of Lord Howe Island, Australia, having erect leaves, widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
- kilometrage — The total distance, in kilometres, travelled.
- kinematical — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- king salmon — chinook salmon.
- kizil irmak — a river flowing N through central Turkey to the Black Sea. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- kleptomania — an irresistible impulse to steal, stemming from emotional disturbance rather than economic need.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- larrikinism — (Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- like a bomb — with great speed or success; very well (esp in the phrase go like a bomb)
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- madder lake — a strong purple-red color.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
- makhachkala — an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Capital: Makhachkala. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- mile-marker — a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.