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12-letter words containing a, k, m

  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • 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.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • 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.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
  • 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.
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • 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
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
  • smalltalk-80 — (language)   The classic standard Smalltalk dialect, described in Adele's book, cited below, commonly known as "The Blue Book". Mail server: [email protected]
  • 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.
  • smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
  • smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
  • stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
  • steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
  • stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
  • take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
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