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14-letter words containing m, a, l, k

  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • medical marker — a trait, condition, etc that indicates the presence of, or a probable increased predisposition towards, a medical or psychological disorder
  • medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • middle-ranking — A middle-ranking person has a fairly important or responsible position in a particular organization, but is not one of the most important people in it.
  • mileage ticket — a book (mileage book) or ticket containing coupons good for a certain number of miles of transportation at a fixed rate per mile.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • milking parlor — a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • naked mole rat — a nearly hairless rodent, Heterocephalus glaber, of eastern African dry steppes and savannas, having two protruding upper and lower front teeth and living entirely underground in colonies, based on a single breeding female and specialized workers of both sexes.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • permanent link — (web)   A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • potamoplankton — plankton living in freshwater streams.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • smooth-talking — A smooth-talking man talks very confidently in a way that is likely to persuade people, but may not be sincere or honest.
  • snake mackerel — an elongate, deep-sea fish, Gempylus serpens, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having jutting jaws and strong teeth.
  • sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
  • swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • walk away from — to outdistance easily; defeat handily
  • work placement — temporary job, internship
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