12-letter words containing a, l, k
- call in sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- 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).
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- 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).
- chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
- 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
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- chuck-a-luck — a gambling game in which players bet on the way three dice, contained in an hourglass-shaped cage, will fall when the cage is pivoted
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
- 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
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- 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.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream