13-letter words containing l, e, k
- lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- like ninepins — If you say that people or things are going down like ninepins, you mean that large numbers of them are suddenly becoming ill, collapsing, or doing very badly.
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- locked bowels — constipation.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
- look and feel — (operating system) The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- make a living — earn money
- make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- market leader — most commercially successful company
- market letter — a publication containing information concerning market conditions, expectations, etc., especially one produced by a securities brokerage firm or other financial organization.
- marketability — readily salable.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- memorial park — cemetery.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.