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18-letter words containing a, b, k, n

  • a slap on the back — congratulation
  • abd-er-rahman khan — 1830?–1901, amir of Afghanistan 1880–1901.
  • alarm clock briton — a British worker with a moderate income, whose daily routine involves preparing children for school and going out to work
  • american brooklime — any of various speedwells found along brooks, in marshes, etc., as Veronica americana (American brooklime) a creeping plant having leafy stems and loose clusters of small blue flowers.
  • back end generator — (tool)   (BEG) A code generator developed by H. Emmelmann et al at GMD, University Karlsruhe, Germany. Its input language is Back End Generator Language (BEGL).
  • back in the saddle — at work again
  • back to square one — If you are back to square one, you have to start dealing with something from the beginning again because the way you were dealing with it has failed.
  • back/down to earth — If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.
  • background reading — reading of related works in order to get contextual information on a topic that you are intending to study or write about
  • backus normal form — Backus-Naur Form
  • banded rattlesnake — timber rattlesnake.
  • banker's reference — a confidential statement about the financial status of a customer, provided by one bank to another, or to an authorized enquirer
  • bankers-acceptance — a draft or bill of exchange that a bank has accepted. Abbreviation: BA. Also called banker's acceptance. Compare acceptance (def 6).
  • basket-handle arch — an arch having a symmetrical form drawn from an odd number of radii in excess of one, which increase in length from the springing toward the center.
  • benchmark position — a public service job used for comparison with a similar position, such as a position in commerce, for wage settlements
  • bend over backward — to try to an unusual degree (to please, pacify, etc.)
  • black nickel oxide — a gray-black, water-insoluble powder, Ni 2 O 3 , which, at 600°C, decomposes to nickel oxide: used chiefly in storage batteries as an oxidizing agent.
  • black-necked grebe — a small grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
  • black-necked stork — a large Australian stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus, having a white plumage, dark green back and tail, and red legs
  • blackback flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • blackwater rafting — the sport of riding through underground caves on a large rubber tube
  • blocking capacitor — a capacitor that blocks the passage of direct current but allows alternating current to pass
  • boston baked beans — haricot beans baked with belly pork and molasses
  • branch to fishkill — (IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities) Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. See jump off into never-never land, hyperspace.
  • break the internet — to cause a large number of people to attempt to access the internet
  • break your silence — If someone breaks their silence about something, they talk about something that they have not talked about before or for a long time.
  • broken twill weave — a twill weave in which the direction of the diagonal produced by the weft threads is reversed after no more than two passages of the weft.
  • correspondent bank — A correspondent bank is a bank that provides services such as accepting deposits for another bank.
  • diamondback turtle — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
  • didaskaleinophobia — The fear of going to school.
  • electronic banking — the transfer of money between financial institutions through an exchange of electronic signals over a network
  • fall-back position — an alternative plan
  • fantasy basketball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • flat on one's back — lying supine
  • get one's own back — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • gooseneck barnacle — goose barnacle
  • green-backed heron — a small, American heron, Butorides striatus, having glossy green wings.
  • handkerchief table — corner table.
  • have on one's back — to be burdened with
  • in black and white — without colour
  • incremental backup — (operating system)   A kind of backup that copies all files which have changed since the date of the previous backup. The first backup of a file system should include all files - a "full backup". Call this level 0. The next backup could also be a full level 0 backup but it is usually much quicker to do a level 1 backup which will include only those files which have changed since the level 0 backup. Together the level 0 and level 1 backups will include the latest version of every file. Level 1 backups can be made until, say, the backup tape is nearly full, after which we can switch to level 2. Each level includes those files which have changed since the last backup at a lower level. The more levels you use, the longer it will take to restore the latest version of a file (or all files) if you don't know when it was last modified. Compare differential backup.
  • interbroker dealer — a specialist who matches the needs of different market makers and facilitates dealings between them
  • interdealer broker — an agent who is paid a commission to bring buyers and sellers together
  • jacksonville beach — a city in NE Florida.
  • johanan ben zakkai — died a.d. c80, Palestinian rabbi who was a leading Pharisaic teacher: disciple of Hillel.
  • kentucky bluegrass — a grass, Poa pratensis, of the Mississippi valley, used for pasturage and lawns.
  • kirtland's warbler — a wood warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, breeding only in north-central Michigan and wintering in the Bahamas, bluish gray above, striped with black and pale yellow below: an endangered species.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • knotted cranesbill — a British wildflower, Geranium nodosum, an meadow geranium with bright pink or purple flowers
  • known lazy bastard — (abuse)   (KLB) A term, used among technical support staff, for a user who repeatedly asks for help with problems whose solutions are clearly explained in the documentation, and persists in doing so after having been told to RTFM. KLBs are singled out for special treatment (i.e. ridicule), especially if they have been heard to say "It's so boring to read the manual! Why don't you just tell me?". The deepest pit in Hell is reserved for KLBs whose questions reveal total ignorance of the basic concepts (e.g., "How do I make a font in Excel?", "Where do I turn on my RAM?"), and who refuse to accept that their questions are neither simple nor well-formed.

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