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13-letter words containing m, i, k, a

  • japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
  • kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • king's ransom — an extremely large amount of money: The painting was sold for a king's ransom.
  • kingsley amisKingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • krishna menon — Vengalil Krishnan [ven-gah-leel krish-nuh n] /vɛnˈgɑ lil ˈkrɪʃ nən/ (Show IPA), 1897–1974, Indian politician and statesman.
  • kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lake-urumiyehLake. Urmia, Lake.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • make a living — earn money
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • make mischief — cause trouble
  • make off with — take away
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • manage a risk — If you manage a risk, you analyze how much you are in danger from a particular risk or hazard, and decide how to best deal with it.
  • mandarin duck — a crested Asian duck, Aix galericulata, having variegated purple, green, chestnut, and white plumage.
  • manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
  • market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • masking frame — easel (def 2).
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
  • metenkephalin — 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.
  • microcracking — microscopic cracking
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
  • milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
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