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

  • mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
  • magical thinking — a conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
  • make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
  • make a day of it — to cause an activity to last a day
  • make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
  • make a photocopy — If you make a photocopy of a document, you make a copy of it using a photocopier.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • make the best of — do what you can
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • make the most of — in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • meet one's maker — to die
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
  • molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
  • moravska ostrava — former name of Ostrava.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spelling mistake — error in writing a word
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
  • to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
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