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19-letter words containing a, g, k

  • kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • knock-down-drag-out — marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
  • knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
  • know a thing or two — be experienced in sth
  • left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
  • like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
  • long-and-short work — an arrangement of rectangular quoins or jambstones set alternately vertically and horizontally.
  • lumholtz's kangaroo — boongary.
  • make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
  • market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
  • mutual savings bank — a noncapitalized savings bank that distributes its net earnings to depositors.
  • niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
  • not by a long chalk — by no means; not possibly
  • oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
  • peak listening time — the time at which the highest numbers of audiences are listening to the radio
  • pen-and-ink drawing — a drawing that is done using a pen rather than a pencil
  • piggyback investing — Piggyback investing is a situation in which a broker repeats a trade on his own behalf immediately after trading for an investor, because he thinks the investor may have inside information.
  • portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
  • postage and packing — the cost of packing and mailing an item bought by post
  • postal savings bank — any of the savings banks formerly operated by local post offices and limited to small accounts.
  • quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • rocky mountain goat — a long-haired, white, antelopelike wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of mountainous regions of western North America, having short, black horns.
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • shucking and jiving — misleading or deceptive talk or behavior, as to give a false impression.
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
  • speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
  • take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
  • take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
  • the great awakening — a movement of religious revival in the American Colonies from c. 1720 to the time of the Revolution
  • to break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
  • to fit like a glove — If you say that something fits like a glove, you are emphasizing that it fits exactly.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
  • yellow book, jargon — (publication)   The print version of the Jargon File, titled "The New Hacker's Dictionary". It includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry. The first, second, and third editions correspond to versions 2.9.6, 3.0.0, and 4.0.0 of the File, respectively.
  • yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters
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