11-letter words containing l, e, k
- deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- death knell — something that heralds death or destruction
- deckle edge — the rough edge of handmade paper, caused by pulp seeping between the mould and the deckle: often left as ornamentation in fine books and writing papers
- deerstalker — A deerstalker is an old-fashioned hat with parts at the sides which can be folded down to cover the ears. Deerstalkers are usually worn by men.
- delta stock — any of the fourth rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange. Market makers need not display prices of these securities continuously and any prices displayed are taken only as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
- dislikeness — disparity
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- duck-legged — having legs that are unusually short: He crept up in a half-crouch that made him look duck-legged.
- duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
- eccles cake — a pastry with a filling of dried fruit
- ekman layer — the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- eksi sozluk — (web) ("Sour Dictionary") An online, Turkish, colaborative, hypertext dictionary.
- electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
- emblem book — a book of allegorical pictures containing a moral lesson, with an explanatory motto or verses
- english oak — a species, Q. robur of the genus Quercus.
- enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
- enniskillen — a town in SW Northern Ireland, in Fermanagh, on an island in the River Erne: scene of the defeat of James II's forces in 1689. Pop: 13 599 (2001)
- eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing