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

  • 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
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • smalltalk-80 — (language)   The classic standard Smalltalk dialect, described in Adele's book, cited below, commonly known as "The Blue Book". Mail server: [email protected]
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
  • smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
  • stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
  • steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
  • stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
  • take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
  • take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
  • tank farming — hydroponics.
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • telemarketer — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • ticktack man — a bookmaker who uses a system of sign language, mainly using the hands, to transmit his odds to other bookmakers at racecourses
  • tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • to make time — If you make time for a particular activity or person, you arrange to have some free time so that you can do the activity or spend time with the person.
  • to mark time — If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen.
  • to take time — If you say that something will take time, you mean that it will take a long time.
  • toe the mark — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
  • track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
  • turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
  • turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
  • unmarketable — readily salable.
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
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