10-letter words containing s, m, a, k
- karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- kermanshah — a city in W Iran.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kissagrams — Plural form of kissagram.
- kissograms — Plural form of kissogram.
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- kramatorsk — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- make as if — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make haste — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- make sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- mark spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- markedness — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- marketeers — Plural form of marketeer.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- markswoman — a woman skilled in shooting at a mark; a woman who shoots well.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- marsh hawk — northern harrier.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- maskalonge — muskellunge.
- maskinonge — muskellunge.
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- master key — a key that will open a number of different locks, the proper keys of which are not interchangeable.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matchstick — a short, slender piece of flammable wood used in making matches.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- matsu-take — an edible fungus, Armillaria matsutake, of Japan.
- matsutakes — Plural form of matsutake.
- maxi-skirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.