12-letter words containing n, e, c, k, l, a
- mental block — inability to recall
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- 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.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- take counsel — receive advice
- unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.