8-letter words containing k, i, m
- like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- limekiln — a kiln or furnace for making lime by calcining limestone or shells.
- limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
- limpkins — Plural form of limpkin.
- linksman — a person who plays golf; golfer.
- mackinac — Straits of, a strait between the peninsulas of Upper Michigan and Lower Michigan, connecting lakes Huron and Michigan.
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- mafeking — a town in N Republic of South Africa: former administrative seat of Bechuanaland; besieged for 217 days by Boers 1899–1900.
- mafikeng — a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899–1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop: 23 650 (2001)
- magickal — Involving, or pertaining to, magick (in modern occultism).
- magicked — Simple past tense and past participle of magic.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- maidanek — a Nazi concentration camp in eastern Poland, near Lublin.
- maitakes — Plural form of maitake.
- makefile — Alternative spelling of make file.
- makimono — a horizontal hand scroll containing either text or a captioned painting, intended to be viewed as it is unrolled from right to left, one segment at a time.
- manakins — Plural form of manakin.
- mandinka — Malinke.
- manikins — Plural form of manikin.
- mannikin — a little man; dwarf; pygmy.
- marikana — a town in the North West Province of South Africa; the platinum mine was the scene of a strike and armed conflict in 2012 during which 47 people, mostly mineworkers, died. Pop: 19 522 (2011)
- marikina — a city in Luzon, SW Philippines, E of Manila.
- markings — Plural form of marking.
- maskings — Plural form of masking.
- masklike — a covering for all or part of the face, worn to conceal one's identity.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- mazelike — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- mckenzie — Robert Tait [teyt] /teɪt/ (Show IPA), 1867–1938, Canadian physician, educator, and sculptor.
- mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- mckinney — a city in NE Texas.
- mckinnon — Sir Don(ald) (Charles). born 1939, New Zealand politician; secretary-general of the Commonwealth (2000–08); deputy prime minister of New Zealand (1990–96)
- medibank — the national health-insurance program instituted in Australia.
- mess kit — a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- mikasuki — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- milk jug — a jug for holding and pouring milk, usually intended for use on the table
- milk leg — a painful swelling of the leg soon after childbirth, due to thrombosis of the large veins.
- milk run — a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- milkings — Plural form of milking.
- milkless — Without milk.
- milklike — Resembling milk.
- milkmaid — a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.
- milkshed — a region producing milk for a specific community: the St. Louis milkshed.
- milksops — Plural form of milksop.
- milkweed — any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, especially those of the genus Asclepias, as A. syriaca. Compare milkweed family.