9-letter words containing t, a, l, k
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- klinostat — a rotating and tilting plant-holder used for studying and experimenting with plant growth
- lake tana — a lake in NW Ethiopia, on a plateau 1800 m (6000 ft) high: the largest lake of Ethiopia; source of the Blue Nile. Area: 3673 sq km (1418 sq miles)
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- like that — in that way
- localtalk — (networking) An Apple Computer network standard using Apple Computer's own networking hardware. Compare EtherTalk.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- make talk — to talk idly, as in an effort to pass time
- matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- metalmark — any of the small, mostly tropical butterflies of the family Riodinidae, often having metallic-colored flecks on the wings.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- milktoast — milquetoast.
- mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- nontalker — a person who does not talk, whether a small child who does not yet talk or an adult who is not talkative
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- over-talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- phil katz — (person) The founder of PKWARE, Inc..
- plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platemark — hallmark.
- polka dot — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- sackcloth — sacking.