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

  • parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • round kumquat — an evergreen, citrus shrub or small tree, Fortunella japonica, of Japan, having blunt, broad leaves and globe-shaped, edible fruit.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • smoking stand — an ashtray mounted on a low pedestal, often placed next to an armchair, sofa, etc.
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • staccato mark — (in music notation) a dot, wedge, or vertical stroke over or under a note to indicate that it should be played staccato.
  • statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • street market — outdoor stalls
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • take measures — act, do sth practical
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • target market — intended customers
  • task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • tillamook bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the NW coast of Oregon: resort center. 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide.
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
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