13-letter words containing l, e, k
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- endoskeletons — Plural form of endoskeleton.
- f.w. de klerk — Frederik Willem, born 1936, South African political leader: president 1989–94; Nobel Peace Prize 1993.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- fellow worker — someone you work with
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- finback whale — rorqual
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- frankenthaler — Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
- franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- greek revival — a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a more or less close imitation of ancient Greek designs and ornamented motifs.
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holiday-maker — vacationer.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework