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13-letter words containing m, a, k, e

  • miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • monkey jacket — a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • musselcracker — a large variety of sea bream, Sparodon durbanensis, that feeds on shellfish and is a popular food and game fish
  • mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • 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.
  • pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
  • 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
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • 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.
  • salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
  • semi-darkness — partial darkness
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • 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
  • small alkanes — Small alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons (=hydrocarbons containing as much hydrogen as possible, and containing only single bonds), usually methane, ethane, propane, and butane.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • 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
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • street market — outdoor stalls
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
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