12-letter words containing a, k, i, m, s
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.