| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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| (verb) obtain through threats | - |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| dkm | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre |
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| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| hackmatack | (noun) poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves | Synonyms: balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera, tacamahac |
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| hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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| km | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, klick |
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| linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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| lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| milkmaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: dairymaid |
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| milkman | (noun) someone who delivers milk | - |
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| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
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| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
| pockmarked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pocked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, potholed |
| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| tkm | (noun) a unit of measure used in freight transport which determines the transport of one tonne of goods by a transport mode over one kilometer. | Synonyms: tonne-kilometer, tonne-kilometre |
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| unworkmanlike | (adjective) not characteristic of or suitable for a good workman | - |
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| workman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workingman |
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| workmanlike | (adjective) worthy of a good workman | - |
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| workmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, craftsmanship |
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| workmate | (noun) a fellow worker | - |
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