15-letter words containing s, i, l, k
- keeling islands — Cocos Islands
- kegel exercises — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- king's shilling — (until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- lackadaisically — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
- lake mistassini — a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- language skills — the ability to use language
- least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- liquorice stick — a long, stick-shaped, liquorice-flavoured sweet, often dipped in sherbet, etc
- liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
- local is lekker — popular slogan promoting South African culture, produce, etc
- loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
- market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
- milk of almonds — almond milk.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pickling onions — small onions suitable for pickling
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face