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12-letter words containing a, k, u

  • 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-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
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • manuka honey — honey from the nectar of the manuka tree, often used for medicinal purposes; known as active manuka honey if it has a UMF rating of over 10.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • mossycup oak — bur oak
  • mount katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
  • mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
  • mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
  • on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
  • out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
  • oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
  • pack a punch — be powerful
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • 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.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
  • quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • quick-acting — (of a drug, chemical, etc) taking effect quickly
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