10-letter words containing e, k, m
- hockey mom — a mother who spends much time driving her children to hockey rinks, watching their games, and encouraging their participation in the sport: Hockey moms are made of tough stuff.
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
- homeworker — a person who works at home for pay, especially a pieceworker.
- horkheimer — Max. 1895–1973, German social theorist of the Frankfurt school. His books include Eclipse of Reason (1947) and Critical Theory (1968)
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- imagemaker — a person, as a publicist, who specializes in creating images for companies, political candidates, etc.
- inkle loom — a simple narrow loom used for weaving long decorative tapes and bands.
- jackhammer — a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
- jam-packed — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kamehameha — ("the Great") 1737?–1819, king of the Hawaiian Islands 1810–19.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- kept woman — a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
- keratotomy — incision of the cornea.
- kermanshah — a city in W Iran.
- kernmantel — denoting a type of mountaineering rope
- kerseymere — a heavily fulled woolen cloth constructed in twill weave and finished with a fine nap.
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- ketonaemia — an excess of ketone bodies in the blood
- kettledrum — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- kilogramme — (British) alternative spelling of kilogram.
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometres — Plural form of kilometre.
- kimberlite — Petrology. a variety of micaceous peridotite, low in silica content and high in magnesium content, in which diamonds are formed.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kinetosome — a structure in some flagellate protozoans which forms the base of the flagellum, consisting of a circular arrangement of microtubules
- king's men — an English theatrical company originally called Lord Chamberlain's Men, founded in the late 16th century: William Shakespeare was the company's principal dramatist.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
- kitembilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kremenchug — a city in central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- kremenchuk — a city in central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious
- kummerbund — a wide sash worn at the waist, especially a horizontally pleated one worn with a tuxedo.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
- lake ilmen — a lake in NW Russia, in the Novgorod Region: drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Area: between 780 sq km (300 sq miles) and 2200 sq km (850 sq miles), according to the season
- lake mälar — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)