13-letter words containing t, a, l, k
- la plata peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,361 feet (4377 meters).
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lake titicaca — a lake between S Peru and W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest large lake in the world; drained by the Desaguadero River flowing into Lake Poopó. Area: 8135 sq km (3141 sq miles). Altitude: 3809 m (12 497 ft). Depth: 370 m (1214 ft)
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- 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.
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- market leader — most commercially successful company
- market letter — a publication containing information concerning market conditions, expectations, etc., especially one produced by a securities brokerage firm or other financial organization.
- marketability — readily salable.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- nannoplankton — the smallest of the microplankton; the aquatic organisms that can pass through fine mesh plankton nets.
- national bank — a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money.
- national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- packing plant — an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
- parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.