15-letter words containing k, l
- mackerel breeze — a strong breeze
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
- market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- milk of almonds — almond milk.
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- milkweed beetle — any of several small red, black-spotted elongated beetles of the genus Tetraopes, common in eastern North America, that inhabit the milkweed.
- milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- molecular clock — the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
- neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.
- norfolk terrier — one of an English breed of small short-legged hunting terriers having a straight, wiry, red, black and tan, or grizzle coat, and dropped ears that distinguish it from the Norwich terrier.
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- on an even keel — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.