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15-letter words containing m, l, k

  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • mackerel breeze — a strong breeze
  • make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
  • make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
  • market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
  • milkweed beetle — any of several small red, black-spotted elongated beetles of the genus Tetraopes, common in eastern North America, that inhabit the milkweed.
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
  • minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
  • mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
  • molecular clock — the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • mount cook lily — a large white buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, of the South Island alpine country of New Zealand
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
  • nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • play the market — to speculate on a stock exchange
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • poke mullock at — to ridicule
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • seller's market — commerce: greater demand than supply
  • sellers' market — a market in which goods and services are scarce and prices relatively high.
  • sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
  • sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
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