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

  • 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.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
  • make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
  • make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
  • make eyes at — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • 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.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • 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
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • 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.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
  • 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.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
  • mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
  • moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
  • 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
  • nikola tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
  • noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
  • 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.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
  • 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.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
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