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17-letter words containing c, o, k, u

  • acoustic feedback — a type of feedback that is created when there is a sound loop linking an audio input and an audio output, such that a high-pitched squealing sound is produced
  • background report — a report on someone or something that sheds light on their background, esp a report on the background of a person convicted of a crime before they are sentenced by a judge
  • blackboard jungle — a school or school system characterized by lack of discipline and by juvenile delinquency.
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • bouncebackability — the ability to recover after a setback, esp in sport
  • brokerage account — A brokerage account is an account with a broker where an investor can buy and sell and hold securities.
  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment
  • caribou codeworks — (company)   The company which sells QTRADER. Director of Marketing: Norm Larsen <[email protected]>.
  • cloud cuckoo land — an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
  • cloud-cuckoo-land — If you say that someone is living in cloud-cuckoo-land, you are criticizing them because they think there are no problems and that things will happen exactly as they want them to, when this is obviously not the case.
  • coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • crude oil cracker — A crude oil cracker is the part of a refinery and the equipment used for changing crude oil to its fractions, using heat and pressure.
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
  • get a kick out of — enjoy, take pleasure in
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • 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.
  • knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • milton work count — a system of hand valuation in which aces count 4, kings 3, queens 2, and jacks 1
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • mount kirkpatrick — a mountain in Antarctica, in S Victoria Land in the Queen Alexandra Range. Height: 4528 m (14 856 ft)
  • mountain sickness — illness caused by being at high altitude
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nikolaus von cusa — Nicholas (def 1).
  • not think much of — be unimpressed by
  • notebook computer — laptop, portable
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)
  • pocket calculator — an electronic calculator small enough to be carried on one's person.
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • republic of korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
  • rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
  • round-trip ticket — a ticket entitling a passenger to travel to his or her destination and back again
  • run out the clock — to maintain control of the ball in the closing minutes of a game
  • stockbroker tudor — a modern style of architecture popular in affluent suburban areas that is imitative of Tudor architecture
  • take into account — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)

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