13-letter words containing m, a, k, e, i
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- make a living — earn money
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- make off with — take away
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
- 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).
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- memorial park — cemetery.
- message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- 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.
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- 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.
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility