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19-letter words containing c, o, k, b

  • put one's back into — to devote all one's strength to (a task)
  • 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
  • take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
  • the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
  • to be reckoned with — of considerable importance or influence
  • to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to make a fast buck — When someone makes a fast buck or makes a quick buck, they earn a lot of money quickly and easily, often by doing something which is considered to be dishonest.
  • to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • to take a back seat — If you take a back seat, you allow other people to have all the power and to make all the decisions.
  • to take the biscuit — If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the biscuit or that what they have done takes the biscuit, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour.
  • trickle bed reactor — A trickle bed reactor is a reactor in which gravity makes a gas and a liquid flow through a bed of catalyst.
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