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12-letter words containing a, r, k, s

  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
  • look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • makarios iii — (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos) 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974).
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
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