12-letter words containing m, a, k, e
- section mark — section (def 16).
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
- share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
- steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
- stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
- stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
- stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
- take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
- take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- telemarketer — selling or advertising by telephone.
- third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
- tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- to make time — If you make time for a particular activity or person, you arrange to have some free time so that you can do the activity or spend time with the person.
- to mark time — If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen.
- to take time — If you say that something will take time, you mean that it will take a long time.
- toe the mark — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- un-earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- unmarketable — readily salable.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- unremarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.