11-letter words containing s, m, a, k
- king salmon — chinook salmon.
- king's mark — one of the marks composing a hallmark, consisting of the head of a leopard, formerly a crowned head.
- kinsmanship — Kinship.
- kiss my ass — expressing defiance or contempt
- lake salmon — landlocked salmon.
- larrikinism — (Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- magic smoke — (electronics, humour) A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
- makassarese — a member of a Muslim people of southwestern Sulawesi, near Ujung Pandang, closely related to the Buginese.
- make a dash — If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.
- make a fuss — complain about sth
- make a mess — create disorder or dirt
- make a pass — sports
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- make use of — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- market test — If a company carries out a market test, it asks a group of people to try a new product or service and give their opinions on it.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- masked ball — a ball at which masks are worn.
- mass market — general public
- mass-market — (of products) produced and distributed in large quantities and intended to appeal to the widest range of consumers.
- masson disk — a white disk on which a series of concentric gray circles appear to vanish intermittently when the disk is rotated, used for testing a person's fluctuation of attention and visual threshold.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- mekhitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- mess jacket — a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
- meter marks — special markings stamped onto privately franked mail by a machine
- mis-package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistracking — track system.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.