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20-letter words containing b, o, n, k

  • a drop in the bucket — an amount very small in relation to what is needed or desired
  • absolute undertaking — a legally binding promise to do something that is not restricted or qualified in any way
  • amelia jenks bloomerAmelia Jenks [jengks] /dʒɛŋks/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, U.S. social reformer and women's-rights leader.
  • back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
  • back-of-the-envelope — (of a plan, calculation, etc) composed or performed quickly and without detailed analysis or research
  • background radiation — low-intensity radiation from, for example, small amounts of radioisotopes in soil, air, building materials, etc
  • backward and forward — If someone or something moves backward and forward, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • be in the market for — to wish to buy or acquire
  • belgorod-dnestrovski — a port in SW Ukraine, on the Dniester estuary: belonged to Romania from 1918 until 1940; under Soviet rule (1944–91). Pop: 48 100 (2004 est)
  • belgorod-dnestrovsky — a seaport in SW Ukraine, on the Black Sea.
  • breakerless ignition — electronic ignition.
  • breakfast television — Breakfast television refers to television programmes which are broadcast in the morning at the time when most people are having breakfast.
  • bring to one's knees — to force to submit or give in
  • bring x to its knees — To present a computer, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or pathological that it grinds to a halt. "To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running vi - or four running Emacs." Compare hog.
  • buck's horn plantain — a Eurasian plant, Plantago coronopus, having leaves resembling a buck's horn: family Plantaginaceae
  • checkbook journalism — the practice of paying for a news story or an interview, or for exclusive broadcasting or publishing rights.
  • checkerboard pattern — checked pattern that looks like a draughtboard
  • come back to someone — (of something forgotten) to return to someone's memory
  • diamondback terrapin — 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
  • duck-billed dinosaur — hadrosaur.
  • endorsement in blank — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
  • front-to-back engine — an engine in which the crankshaft is arranged front to back along the axis of the vehicle
  • hudson's bay blanket — a woollen blanket with wide stripes
  • in double-quick time — In double-quick time means the same as double-quick.
  • kluver-bucy syndrome — a syndrome caused by bilateral injury to the temporal lobes and characterized by memory defect, hypersexuality, excessive oral behavior, and diminished fear reactions.
  • knock out of the box — to make so many hits against (an opposing pitcher) as to cause the pitcher's removal
  • like a ton of bricks — (used esp of the manner of punishing or reprimanding someone) with great force; severely
  • microwave background — a background of microwave electromagnetic radiation with a black-body spectrum discovered in 1965, understood to be the thermal remnant of the big bang with which the universe began
  • mobile phone chicken — a highly dangerous game in which a person is challenged to perform a hazardous stunt which he or she films with a camera phone
  • monkey on one's back — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • nickel tetracarbonyl — nickel carbonyl.
  • off the beaten track — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
  • pick someone's brain — to obtain information or ideas from someone
  • rocky mountain basic — (language)   The BASIC language used by Hewlett Packard on their 680x0-based computers. Rocky Mountain Basic is good for interfaces to IEEE 488 controls and contains many mathematical and matrix functions. It has about 600 commands. Typical applications include automatic test stations.
  • ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
  • second-hand bookshop — a shop selling second-hand books
  • shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
  • short back and sides — If a man has a short back and sides, his hair is cut very short at the back and sides with slightly thicker, longer hair on the top of the head.
  • skull and crossbones — a representation of a front view of a human skull above two crossed bones, originally used on pirates' flags and now used as a warning sign, as in designating substances as poisons.
  • standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
  • to be walking on air — If you say that you are walking on air or floating on air, you mean that you feel extremely happy about something.
  • to get your own back — If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you.
  • to keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example, when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
  • watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.

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