14-letter words containing k, r, a, m
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
- kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
- karakoram pass — a high pass (5575 m (18 290 ft)) that crosses the Karakoram mountains in N Kashmir
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- khartoum north — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile River, opposite Khartoum.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
- kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
- knight templar — Templar.
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- make a bargain — to agree on terms
- make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- make no secret — If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- mark-to-market — denoting a system that values assets according to their current market price
- market economy — a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
- market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- marumi kumquat — round kumquat.
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- meat and drink — a source of pleasure
- medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
- medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
- mercator track — a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.
- micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
- middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
- migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.