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16-letter words containing m, a, k, r

  • kitagawa utamaro — Kitagawa [kee-tah-gah-wah] /ˈki tɑˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1753–1806, Japanese painter, draftsman, and designer of prints.
  • kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
  • make a break for — run towards
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
  • meet one's maker — to die
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • moravska ostrava — former name of Ostrava.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • not miss a trick — to be very alert
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • roskind grammars — (tool)   Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
  • sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
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