9-letter words containing m, a, k
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- clam-like — resembling a clam
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.
- cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
- come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- coremaker — a person who makes cores for foundry molds.
- cracksman — a burglar, esp a safe-breaker
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- dekagrams — Plural form of dekagram.
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- demarking — demarcate.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- dressmake — to make dresses
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- easy mark — sb easily targeted or victimized
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- face mask — Sports. the protective equipment, usually made of steel or plastic, that guards the face, as the steel cage worn by a baseball catcher or the molded plastic covering worn by a hockey goalkeeper.
- farm-bike — a motorcycle built for off-road travel
- filemaker — (software) A database application developed by Claris. It is currently the leading database application for the Macintosh and is the second most popular standalone package for Windows.
- film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
- filmmaker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- flamelike — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- floodmark — A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
- folk mass — a liturgical mass in which traditional music is replaced by folk music.