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12-letter words containing k, a, i, m

  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
  • holidaymaker — vacationer.
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
  • hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hypokalaemia — Alternative form of hypokalemia.
  • iliamna lake — the largest lake in Alaska, in the SW part. 1022 sq. mi. (2647 sq. km).
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
  • jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
  • kamehameha i — ("the Great") 1737?–1819, king of the Hawaiian Islands 1810–19.
  • karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
  • kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
  • katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
  • kath and kim — a personification of the White population of middle Australia
  • keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
  • kigoma-ujiji — a city composed of two merged towns in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: Stanley found Livingstone in Ujiji 1871.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • machtpolitik — power politics
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • magic cookie — 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell" may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions. Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • makarios iii — (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos) 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974).
  • make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
  • make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
  • make certain — ensure
  • 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.
  • make sb sick — disgust sb morally
  • make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • mall walking — recreational or aerobic walking done in the confines of a shopping mall.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
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