13-letter words containing m, a, k, e
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- holiday-maker — vacationer.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
- immanuel kant — Immanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; German ih-mah-noo-el] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; German ɪˈmɑ nuˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1724–1804, German philosopher.
- in the making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- jomo kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
- kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
- katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
- kaufmann peak — former name of Lenin Peak.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
- kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
- 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
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.