11-letter words containing k, a, m, e
- make use of — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
- make-up man — a man who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mangia-cake — a derogatory term for a White person of Anglo-Saxon origin, used among Italo-Canadians
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- market boat — a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
- market data — Market data is information gathered about the demand for goods, such as the number of units sold, and the value of goods sold.
- market rent — (in Britain) the rent chargeable for accommodation, allowing for the scarcity of that kind of property and the willingness of tenants to pay
- market test — If a company carries out a market test, it asks a group of people to try a new product or service and give their opinions on it.
- market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marking pen — marker (def 10).
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- mass market — general public
- mass-market — (of products) produced and distributed in large quantities and intended to appeal to the widest range of consumers.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- meat market — a market where meat is sold
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- mess jacket — a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- meter marks — special markings stamped onto privately franked mail by a machine
- mile-marker — a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
- mis-package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.