13-letter words containing k, r, a, m
- market square — a square in a village, town, etc in which a market is, or was formerly, held
- market trader — a person who sells goods from a stall in a market
- market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- marketability — readily salable.
- marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- masking frame — easel (def 2).
- master-stroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- masterstrokes — Plural form of masterstroke.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- memorial park — cemetery.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- microcracking — microscopic cracking
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
- monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
- on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- round kumquat — an evergreen, citrus shrub or small tree, Fortunella japonica, of Japan, having blunt, broad leaves and globe-shaped, edible fruit.
- salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations