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14-letter words containing k, r

  • licorice stick — a clarinet.
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • like clockwork — the mechanism of a clock.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • 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.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • 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.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • milking parlor — a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
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