9-letter words containing k, a, m
- lawmaking — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- leukaemia — (UK) alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lovemaker — Someone who makes love.
- m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackensen — August von [ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1945, German field marshal.
- mackenzie — Sir Alexander, 1764–1820, Scottish explorer in Canada.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- make away — to depart in haste
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make book — to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- make eyes — to ogle amorously
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- make head — to make progress
- make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- make talk — to talk idly, as in an effort to pass time
- make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- makeyevka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of the Sea of Azov.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.