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12-letter words containing e, k, m

  • 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
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • 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.
  • marcus bakerMount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • 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 maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
  • market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • 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.
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • 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.
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • markov model — (probability, simulation)   A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
  • 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.
  • mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
  • mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
  • microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
  • middle greek — Medieval Greek.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • milk thistle — flowering plant
  • milk-livered — timid; cowardly
  • milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
  • milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
  • milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
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