15-letter words containing a, c, k, e, m
- make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- make tracks for — to go or head towards
- market research — investigation into consumers' needs
- market-research — to conduct market research on.
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- merchant banker — A merchant banker is someone who works for a merchant bank.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- molecular clock — the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- pancake make-up — make up in cake form applied to the face with a sponge in order to cover up imperfections and even out skin tone
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- take the mickey — mock
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.