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13-letter words containing m, o, n, k

  • mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
  • mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
  • microcracking — microscopic cracking
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • milking stool — a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.
  • milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • monkey engine — a pile-driver
  • monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
  • monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
  • monkey jacket — a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
  • monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
  • monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • monkey-shines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • necklace bomb — a bomb consisting of linked charges hung around a victim's neck, used by terrorists or in hostage situations
  • network storm — broadcast storm
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
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