12-letter words containing ak
- lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- 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 success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- 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)
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
- makarios iii — (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos) 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974).
- make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
- make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make certain — ensure
- make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
- make eyes at — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- make friends — get to know people
- make game of — to make fun of; ridicule; mock
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- make poo poo — excrement; feces.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- market maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.