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10-letter words containing l, a, n, r, k

  • loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
  • lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
  • lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
  • matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
  • menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
  • milk train — a local train running through the early hours of the morning.
  • moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
  • naturelike — the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
  • nectarlike — Resembling or characteristic of nectar.
  • noel-bakerPhilip John, 1889–1982, British statesman and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
  • oil tanker — a large ship specifically designed for transporting crude oil in bulk across the oceans.
  • painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
  • parentlike — a father or a mother.
  • prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
  • prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
  • radio link — radio communication setup
  • rake angle — The rake angle is the angle of the surface of a cutting tool tip over which the removed chips flow.
  • rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
  • ranshackle — to ransack
  • raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
  • sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
  • skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
  • slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
  • sri lankan — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Capital: Colombo.
  • stricklandWilliam, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
  • talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
  • tall drink — a beverage consisting of liquor and a sparkling soda, fruit juice, or the like, to which may be added other ingredients, served in a tall glass, usually with ice.
  • trancelike — a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
  • trunk call — a long-distance phone call.
  • unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • walkaround — A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
  • warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
  • world bank — an international bank established in 1944 to help member nations reconstruct and develop, especially by guaranteeing loans: a specialized agency of the United Nations.
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