10-letter words containing m, a, s, r, k
- markswoman — a woman skilled in shooting at a mark; a woman who shoots well.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- marsh hawk — northern harrier.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- master key — a key that will open a number of different locks, the proper keys of which are not interchangeable.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- maxi-skirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- milk sugar — lactose.
- moonrakers — Plural form of moonraker.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- newsmakers — Plural form of newsmaker.
- noisemaker — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- oddsmakers — Plural form of oddsmaker.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- sky marker — a parachute flare dropped to mark a target area
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- steelmaker — a manufacturer of steel.
- steiermark — German name of Styria.
- stock farm — a farm devoted to breeding livestock.
- szymborska — Wislawa [vis-lah-vah] /vɪsˈlɑ vɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel prize 1996.
- taskmaster — a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- tastemaker — a person or thing that establishes or strongly influences what is considered to be stylish, acceptable, or worthwhile in a given sphere of interest, as the arts.
- tyre marks — marks on the road resulting from friction caused by vehicle tyres locked in position by brakes
- watermarks — Plural form of watermark.
- workmaster — a master workman
- workstream — The organised output of several distinct, and often unrelated, work groups.
- worm snake — any of several small, wormlike snakes, especially Carphophis amoenus, of the eastern and central U.S.