12-letter words containing l, e, k, g
- interlinking — Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- nice-looking — Someone who is nice-looking is physically attractive.
- nothing like — totally dissimilar to, completely unlike
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.