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13-letter words containing s, a, l, k

  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • crayola books — (publication)   A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange Book.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
  • dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
  • donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • gnu smalltalk — (language)   A GNU version of Smalltalk, by Steven Byrne <[email protected]>. Version 1.1.1,
  • 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.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • in-line skate — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • inline skates — a roller skate with typically four hard-rubber wheels in a straight line resembling the blade of an ice skate.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
  • kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • klamath falls — a city in SW Oregon.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
  • lackadaisical — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • lake balkhash — a salt lake in SE Kazakhstan: fed by the Ili River. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
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