15-letter words containing m, a, k, e
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- risk assessment — the evaluation of the possible risks in a product,situation, activity or course of action
- risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- seller's market — commerce: greater demand than supply
- sellers' market — a market in which goods and services are scarce and prices relatively high.
- sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
- sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
- take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- take the mickey — mock
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- terminal market — an organized market in a city into which large quantities of agricultural produce, livestock, etc., are shipped for distribution and sale.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the working man — working class people collectively
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- unstatesmanlike — not resembling or befitting a political leader whose wisdom, integrity, etc win great respect
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- viral marketing — a marketing strategy that focuses on spreading information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially by using unconventional means such as the Internet or email: Which online social networks can help with viral marketing?