13-letter words containing l, a, r, i, k
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kirkland lake — a town in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
- lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- marketability — readily salable.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- memorial park — cemetery.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
- rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.