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12-letter words containing l, a, n, k

  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stanislavski — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • take counsel — receive advice
  • take in sail — to lower sails, as in order to reduce the area of sail set
  • talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tank trailer — a trailer truck or tractor-trailer with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.
  • thank kindly — to thank heartily
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
  • truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
  • umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
  • unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
  • underblanket — a blanket placed under a bottom sheet
  • undertakable — able to be undertaken
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • unremarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • unsailorlike — not befitting a sailor
  • unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
  • unthankfully — in an unthankful manner; not thankfully; ungratefully
  • velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
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