12-letter words containing e, k, o
- 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.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- 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.
- 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.
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- modern greek — the Greek language since c1500. Abbreviation: ModGk.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- 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 house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
- monkey trial — John 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.
- monkeyshines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- 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.
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- need-to-know — done or given only when it is essential that someone knows something
- needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
- netting knot — a knot made between two ropes by forming a bight in one and passing the end of the other through the bight, around it, and under itself.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".