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12-letter words containing e, s, k, a, r

  • korea strait — a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
  • lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
  • lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • 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.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • naked street — a traffic-management strategy pioneered in the Netherlands in which all distinctions between pavements and roads are removed. Each road user is given equal priority, thereby ensuring that motorists have to slow down and drive more carefully
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
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