12-letter words containing n, a, k, e, l
- lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
- lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 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)
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- 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
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- 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.
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- 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.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- 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.
- nankeen lily — a lily, Lilium testaceum, having drooping, fragrant, pink-tinged, yellowish or apricot-colored flowers with recurved petals.
- 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.
- nonbreakable — Not easily broken.
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin