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12-letter words containing l, i, k, n, g

  • risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
  • 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • twin killing — double play.
  • unblinkingly — not blinking.
  • walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
  • walkingstick — a stick used for walking
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
  • working girl — Older Use: Often Offensive. a woman who works.
  • working rail — fly rail (def 2).
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