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13-letter words containing t, a, k, e

  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake titicaca — a lake between S Peru and W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest large lake in the world; drained by the Desaguadero River flowing into Lake Poopó. Area: 8135 sq km (3141 sq miles). Altitude: 3809 m (12 497 ft). Depth: 370 m (1214 ft)
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • make a market — If you make a market, you hold a large enough percentage of a stock to be able to change its price.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • make off with — take away
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
  • market basket — a basket or cart for groceries.
  • market demand — demand for a particular product or commodity
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • market garden — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • market leader — most commercially successful company
  • market letter — a publication containing information concerning market conditions, expectations, etc., especially one produced by a securities brokerage firm or other financial organization.
  • market square — a square in a village, town, etc in which a market is, or was formerly, held
  • market trader — a person who sells goods from a stall in a market
  • market trends — changes and developments in buying and selling in the market
  • market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
  • marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
  • marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
  • master-stroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
  • masterstrokes — Plural form of masterstroke.
  • megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
  • merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
  • message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • miss the mark — to fail in achieving one's aim; be unsuccessful in one's attempt
  • monkey jacket — a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • mustafa kemal — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
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