8-letter words containing m, i, k
- murkiest — Superlative form of murky.
- musicker — a musician
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- myokymia — twitching of individual segments of a muscle.
- nickname — a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of “Whizzer.”.
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- off-mike — located at a distance from or not projected directly into a microphone: off-mike sound effects.
- overmilk — to milk too much
- palmlike — resembling a palm
- pin mark — the circular indentation on the upper part of a type body, made by the pin that ejects the type from the caster.
- potemkin — Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich [gri-gawr-ee al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1739–91, Russian statesman and favorite of Catherine II.
- pumpking — pumpkin
- pumplike — resembling a pump
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- rillmark — a mark or channel left by the trickle of a rill or brook
- rim lock — a lock nailed or screwed to one face of a door, gate, etc., as opposed to one built into its edge.
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- sheikdom — the land or territory under the control of a sheik.
- shkotzim — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- sickroom — a room in which a sick person is confined.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- simbirsk — former name of Ulyanovsk.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- ski jump — a snow-covered chute or slide at the side of a hill or built up on top of the hill, the base of the chute having a horizontal ramp that enables a skier to speed down the chute, take off at the end of the ramp, and land further down the hill.
- ski mask — a one-piece pullover covering for the head and face, generally of knitted material with holes for the eyes, the mouth, and sometimes the nose, originally worn by skiers and used to protect the face against cold and wind.
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- skim off — to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle: to skim the cream from milk.
- skimming — an act or instance of skimming.
- skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- smirking — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
- smocking — a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
- soy milk — liquid obtained from soybeans
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stuckism — a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)
- take aim — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
- talktime — the amount of time for which a subscriber can use a mobile-phone network
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- tidemark — the point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above: He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity.
- timbuktu — a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. French Tombouctou.
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.