10-letter words containing k, m, e
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- quick time — Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 cm), are taken in a minute.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- 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.
- remarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- remarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rocker arm — a rocking or oscillating arm or lever rotating with a moving shaft or pivoted on a stationary shaft.
- rocker cam — a cam with a rocking or reciprocating motion.
- room clerk — a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.
- rope maker — a craftsman who makes ropes
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- 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.
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- steelmaker — a manufacturer of steel.
- steiermark — German name of Styria.