10-letter words containing k, i, r, m
- mark spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- mark twain — Roger (William Roger Clemens"The Rocket") born 1962, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- marketroid — /mar'k*-troyd/ (Or "marketing slime", "marketeer", "marketing droid", "marketdroid") A member of a company's marketing department, especially one who promises users that the next version of a product will have features that are not actually scheduled for inclusion, are extremely difficult to implement, and/or are in violation of the laws of physics; and/or one who describes existing features (and misfeatures) in ebullient, buzzword-laden adspeak. Derogatory.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- martyrlike — Resembling or characteristic of a martyr.
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- maxi-skirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- metrestick — a measuring stick one metre long
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- microcrack — a microscopic crack in a material
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- microskirt — An extremely short skirt, ending just underneath the buttocks.
- milk adder — any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum (doliata), of North America.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- milk fever — Pathology. fever coinciding with the beginning of lactation, formerly believed to be due to lactation but really due to infection.
- milk gravy — a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.
- milk round — If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
- milk sugar — lactose.
- milk train — a local train running through the early hours of the morning.
- millworker — A worker in a mill or factory.
- mineworker — miner.
- mini-break — A mini-break is a short holiday.
- mini-skirt — A mini-skirt is a very short skirt.
- minimarket — a grocery store or delicatessen.
- miniskirts — Plural form of miniskirt.
- ministroke — transient ischemic attack.
- mirrorlike — Resembling a mirror; reflective.
- moonraking — the act of taking part in a foolhardy or unfruitful activity
- moonstrike — the act of landing a spacecraft on the moon
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- moviemaker — filmmaker.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multitrack — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- roadmaking — road building