10-letter words containing l, e, k
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- desertlike — a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dickcissel — a small North American bird (Spiza americana), the male of which has a yellow breast, a black patch on its throat, and a mainly grey head
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- dislikable — Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
- dislikeful — with dislike
- distelfink — a stylized bird motif traditional in Pennsylvania German art.
- dog kennel — temporary housing for dogs
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- downlooked — having a sad or dejected appearance
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dull knife — (Tah-me-la-pash-me) died 1883, leader of the Northern Cheyenne.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
- enkindling — Present participle of enkindle.
- eskilstuna — an industrial city in SE Sweden. Pop: 91 137 (2004 est)
- falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
- false keel — an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fecklessly — In a feckless manner.
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- ferntickle — a freckle
- fibrinlike — Resembling or characteristic of fibrin.
- fickleness — Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.