12-letter words containing d, a, k
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- 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 friends — get to know people
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
- market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- 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
- network card — network interface controller
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- north dakota — a state in the N central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Capital: Bismarck. Abbreviation: ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- 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.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- 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)
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- 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.
- pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
- reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes