13-letter words containing m, i, k, a
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
- mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
- noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
- smoking stand — an ashtray mounted on a low pedestal, often placed next to an armchair, sofa, etc.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- task-mistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.