12-letter words containing k, a, m
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- 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.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mental block — inability to recall
- 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.
- 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.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- 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 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.
- mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- mount katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
- 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.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
- noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- omar khayyám — Omar, Omar Khayyám.
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
- parking ramp — apron (def 6).