12-letter words containing t, a, l, k
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
- cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent