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12-letter words containing k, e, r, m

  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
  • holidaymaker — vacationer.
  • hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
  • inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.
  • katharometer — (science) A device used for analyzing gas mixtures by measuring their thermal conductivity.
  • katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
  • keeping room — hall (def 11).
  • keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
  • killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • make certain — ensure
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • marcus bakerMount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
  • market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • markov model — (probability, simulation)   A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
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