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12-letter words containing m, i, k, r

  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • makarios iii — (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos) 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974).
  • make certain — ensure
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • margin plank — a plank forming a border for wooden decking.
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
  • marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
  • merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
  • mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
  • middle greek — Medieval Greek.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
  • milk-livered — timid; cowardly
  • misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
  • mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
  • mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
  • monkey trialJohn Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • moonstricken — Moonstruck.
  • mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
  • more like it — closer to being what is wanted
  • mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
  • mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
  • motor skills — coordination, ability to move
  • mule skinner — a muleteer.
  • muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
  • multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
  • mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
  • music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
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