12-letter words containing k, e, r, m
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- modern greek — the Greek language since c1500. Abbreviation: ModGk.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- 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.
- normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
- normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
- patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.