12-letter words containing m, o, n, k
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- smoke screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoke-screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- throckmorton — Francis. 1554–84, English conspirator, who with French and Spanish support plotted (1583) to depose Elizabeth I in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots: executed
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
- underkingdom — the domain of an underking
- workingwoman — a woman who is regularly employed.
- workingwomen — a woman who is regularly employed.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.