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10-letter words containing k, m, e, s

  • 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.
  • musketeers — Plural form of musketeer.
  • muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
  • myslivecek — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1737–81, Czech composer.
  • mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
  • newsmakers — Plural form of newsmaker.
  • 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.
  • non-smoker — a person who does not smoke.
  • nonsmokers — Plural form of nonsmoker.
  • numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
  • oddsmakers — Plural form of oddsmaker.
  • pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
  • reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
  • samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
  • scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
  • seamanlike — like or befitting a seaman; showing good seamanship.
  • semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
  • shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
  • shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
  • shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
  • skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  • sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
  • skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
  • sky marker — a parachute flare dropped to mark a target area
  • slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
  • smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
  • smoke dome — the smoke chamber covering of a prefabricated metal fireplace unit.
  • smoke ring — a visible ring formed by the sudden release of smoke, usually created by blowing smoke from the mouth or by a cigarette, incense stick etc
  • smoke shop — a shop selling tobacco products.
  • smoke tree — Also called American smoke tree, chittamwood. a tree, Cotinus obovatus, of the cashew family, native to the southeastern U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and large clusters of small white flowers.
  • smoke-free — without any smoke from cigarettes, etc
  • smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
  • smoked out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • smokehouse — a building or place in which meat, fish, etc., are cured with smoke.
  • smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
  • smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
  • smoketight — (of a door, etc) not allowing smoke to pass through
  • snakemouth — rose pogonia.
  • space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
  • specmark89 — (benchmark)   An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
  • spike moss — any of numerous plants of the genus Selaginella, allied to and resembling the club mosses.
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