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14-letter words containing k, i

  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • make a dent in — a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
  • make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • make a killing — If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • marumi kumquat — round kumquat.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • meat and drink — a source of pleasure
  • medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
  • medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
  • megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • mid wicket off — mid off.
  • middle kingdom — Also called Middle Empire. the period in the history of ancient Egypt, c2000–1785 b.c., comprising the 11th to 14th dynasties. Compare New Kingdom, Old Kingdom.
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • mileage ticket — a book (mileage book) or ticket containing coupons good for a certain number of miles of transportation at a fixed rate per mile.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • milking parlor — a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • mormon cricket — a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • nagami kumquat — oval kumquat.
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