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

  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • make a break for — run towards
  • 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 fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
  • meet one's maker — to die
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
  • modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
  • network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
  • network meltdown — (networking)   (By analogy with catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor) An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, of a network. Network meltdown usually results from illegal or misrouted packets (see Chernobyl packet) and typically lasts only a short time. It may also be caused by a hardware fault. It is the network equivalent of thrashing.
  • new world monkey — any of various arboreal anthropoid primates of the group or superfamily Platyrrhini, inhabiting forests from Mexico to Argentina and typically having a hairy face, widely separated nostrils, long arms, and a long, prehensile tail, and including the capuchin, douroucouli, howler monkey, marmoset, saki, spider monkey, squirrel monkey, titi, uakari, and woolly monkey.
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • old world monkey — any of various anthropoid primates of the family Cercopithecidae, of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and Asia, typically having a hairless face, forward- or downward-directed nostrils, relatively short arms, flat nails, and either having a rudimentary tail or using the tail for balance rather than grasping, and including the baboon, colobus monkey, guenon, langur, macaque, mandrill, mangabey, patas, proboscis, and talapoin.
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
  • 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
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • 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.
  • three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • 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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