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12-letter words containing k, r, a, m

  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • margin plank — a plank forming a border for wooden decking.
  • mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
  • market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
  • markov model — (probability, simulation)   A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
  • marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
  • mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • normokalemia — The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.
  • normokalemic — Having a normal percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • omar khayyám — Omar, Omar Khayyám.
  • on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • parking ramp — apron (def 6).
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