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12-letter words containing t, a, k, e, l

  • ladder truck — hook and ladder.
  • lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
  • lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
  • lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
  • lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
  • lake turkana — a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)
  • lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
  • nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • 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.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • rattlesnakes — 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.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
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