22-letter words containing c, o, k, b
- a monkey on one's back — addiction to a drug
- backward combatability — (humour) /bak'w*d k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ (Play on "backward compatibility") A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc. are irrevocably discarded in favour of "new and improved" protocols, formats and layouts, leaving the previous ones not merely deprecated but actively defeated. (Too often, the old and new versions cannot definitively be distinguished, such that lingering instances of the previous ones yield crashes or other infelicitous effects, as opposed to a simple "version mismatch" message.) A backward compatible change, on the other hand, allows old versions to coexist without crashes or error messages, but too many major changes incorporating elaborate backward compatibility processing can lead to extreme software bloat. See also flag day.
- backward compatibility — (jargon) Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. Sometimes backward compatibility is limited to being able to read old data but does not extend to being able to write data in a format that can be read by old versions. For example, WordPerfect 6.0 can read WordPerfect 5.1 files, so it is backward compatible. It can be said that Perl is backward compatible with awk, because Perl was (among other things) intended to replace awk, and can, with a converter, run awk programs. See also: backward combatability. Compare: forward compatible.
- backwards and forwards — If someone or something moves backwards and forwards, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
- bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
- bell, book, and candle — instruments used formerly in excommunications and other ecclesiastical acts
- black hole of calcutta — a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- block diagram compiler — (simulation, language) (BDL) A block diagram simulation tool, with associated language.
- block redundancy check — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
- born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
- chip off the old block — a person who resembles one of his or her parents in behaviour
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
- end transmission block — (character) (ETB) The mnemonic for ASCII character 23.
- first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
- get off someone's back — to stop criticizing or pestering someone
- in one's own back yard — close at hand
- it's london to a brick — it is certain
- justification by works — the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.
- keesler air force base — a U.S. Air Force installation in S Mississippi, near Biloxi.
- klebs-loffler bacillus — a bacterium, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.
- lesser cornstalk borer — the larva of a widely distributed pyralid moth, Elasmopalpus lignosellus, that damages corn and some other crops by boring into the part of the stalk close to the soil.
- make a clean breast of — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- make allowances for sb — If you make allowances for someone, you accept behaviour which you would not normally accept or deal with them less severely than you would normally, because of a problem that they have.
- make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
- mecklenburg-vorpommern — German name of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania.
- nassella tussock board — one of many local statutory organizations set up in different regions of New Zealand to eradicate the invasive nassella tussock weed
- neighborhood bike code — (humour, programming) A piece of code that every programmer at the company has touched.
- rocky mountain bighorn — bighorn.
- second-hand bookseller — a person who has a second-hand bookshop
- sick building syndrome — an illness caused by exposure to pollutants or germs inside an airtight building.
- sir william blackstone — Sir William, 1723–80, English jurist and writer on law.
- take a fancy to sb/sth — If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
- to be knocked sideways — If you are knocked sideways by something, it makes you feel very surprised, confused, or upset.
- to bend over backwards — If you say that someone is bending over backwards to be helpful or kind, you are emphasizing that they are trying very hard to be helpful or kind.
- to cast your mind back — If you cast your mind back to a time in the past, you think about what happened then.
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