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14-letter words containing m, i, k, e

  • neuromarketing — the process of researching the brain patterns of consumers to reveal their responses to particular advertisements and products before developing new advertising campaigns and branding techniques
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • 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.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • 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.
  • pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
  • 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.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
  • skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • 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.
  • take a meeting — to attend a business conference
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • ticket machine — automated ticket dispenser
  • to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • united kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801–1922. 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Capital: London. Abbreviation: U.K.
  • vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
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