16-letter words containing e, k, m, a, n
- market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- meet one's maker — to die
- milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
- okefenokee swamp — a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.
- pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.