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12-letter words containing e, k, m, a, n

  • make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
  • make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
  • make certain — ensure
  • 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 inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • 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.
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • 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.
  • meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
  • minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
  • mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
  • 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
  • monkey trialJohn Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
  • 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.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • 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.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
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