15-letter words containing m, a, k, o, n
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- nark at someone — to nag someone
- on/off the mark — If something is off the mark, it is inaccurate or incorrect. If it is on the mark, it is accurate or correct.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- postman's knock — a children's party game in which a kiss is exchanged for a pretend letter
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- smoky mountains — Great Smoky Mountains
- 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.
- 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.
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- the working man — working class people collectively
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.