11-letter words containing n, a, k, e, l
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- lassen peak — an active volcano in N California, in the S Cascade Range. 10,465 feet (3190 meters).
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- liederkranz — a German choral society or singing club, especially of men.
- lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
- likableness — The property of being likable, that which makes likable.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- linebacking — the act of forming a second line of defence, close to the linesman
- link loader — linker
- luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
- nonskeletal — of or pertaining to parts of the body other than the skeletal structure
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oneida lake — a lake in central New York. 20 miles (32 km) long; 5 miles (8 km) wide.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.