16-letter words containing a, w, k
- acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
- ambulance worker — any person who works in the ambulance service
- answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
- as far as i know — You can use far in expressions like 'as far as I know' and 'so far as I remember' to indicate that you are not absolutely sure of the statement you are about to make or have just made, and you may be wrong.
- asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
- backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
- black woodpecker — a large woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, found in parts of Eurasia and Africa
- blackwater fever — a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine
- blow one's stack — to lose one's temper; fly into a rage
- brake horsepower — the rate at which an engine does work, expressed in horsepower. It is measured by the resistance of an applied brake
- break faith with — If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
- break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
- break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
- childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
- cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
- first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
- hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
- have a talk with — discuss
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- hit a brick wall — unable to continue or make progress because of a hindrance
- hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- kawasaki disease — an acute illness of unknown cause, occurring primarily in children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph glands, rash, redness in mouth and throat, and joint pain.
- keep pace (with) — to go at the same speed (as)
- keep under wraps — not reveal
- kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
- kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kitagawa utamaro — Kitagawa [kee-tah-gah-wah] /ˈki tɑˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1753–1806, Japanese painter, draftsman, and designer of prints.
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- know what's what — to know how one thing or things in general work
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- look up and down — to search everywhere
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
- maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
- measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
- network database — (database) A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database (no explicit owner).
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