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

  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skilligalee — gruel
  • skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • tiggywinkle — a gene found in fish and belonging to a family of genes known as the Hedgehog family
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • wrigglework — decorative engraving of a metal surface with repeated zigzags.
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