10-letter words containing a, m, k
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- class mark — a value within a class interval, esp its midpoint or the nearest integral value, used to represent the interval for computational convenience
- cloak-room — a room in which outer garments, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be left temporarily, as in a club, restaurant, etc.; checkroom.
- cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
- cloakrooms — Plural form of cloakroom.
- clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- cockamamie — If you describe something as cockamamie, you mean that it is ridiculous or silly.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- damnyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demarketed — Simple past tense and past participle of demarket.
- disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
- ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
- dockmackie — a North American shrub, Viburnum acerifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having long stemmed clusters of white flowers and ovoid, almost black berries.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- draft mark — any of a series of figures or marks at the stem or stern of a vessel indicating the distance vertically from the lowermost part of the hull.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- earmarking — Present participle of earmark.
- embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
- embarkment — Embarkation; the act of setting out.
- euromarket — economics
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- farmworker — farm hand.
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- fingermark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- glassmaker — A person or company that makes glass or glass items.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- gluemakers — Plural form of gluemaker.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.