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17-letter words containing e, n, k

  • skin of our teeth — a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder.
  • sleeping sickness — Also called African sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis. a generally fatal disease, common in parts of Africa, characterized by fever, wasting, and progressive lethargy: caused by a parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma gambiense or T. rhodesiense, that is carried by a tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis.
  • smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
  • speak one's piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • stonewall jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • take advantage of — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
  • take exception to — object to sth
  • take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
  • 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
  • take no notice of — pay no attention to, disregard
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • take sth on trust — If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it.
  • take to one's bed — to remain in bed, esp because of illness
  • take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • 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)
  • the silken ladder — a one-act opera by Rossini, telling the story of Giulia, who is secretly married to Dorvil; he visits her bedroom every night by climbing up a ladder made of silk. Giulia's guardian, Dormont, expects her to marry Blansac, but she introduces Blansac to her cousin Lucilla; after much confusion, the two couples are joyfully united
  • think in terms of — If you say that you are thinking in terms of doing a particular thing, you mean that you are considering it.
  • to be taken aback — If you are taken aback by something, you are surprised or shocked by it and you cannot respond at once.
  • to break the bank — If you say that the cost of something will not break the bank, you mean that it will not cost a large sum of money.
  • to get to know sb — If you get to know someone, you find out what they are like by spending time with them.
  • to know full well — If you say that a person knows full well that something is true, especially something unpleasant, you are emphasizing that they are definitely aware of it, although they may behave as if they are not.
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • to make ends meet — If you find it difficult to make ends meet, you can only just manage financially because you hardly have enough money for the things you need.
  • to risk your neck — If you say that someone is risking their neck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.
  • tone control knob — a round switch on a radio, record player, etc that is turned to alter the tone control
  • track maintenance — the process of maintaining and repairing railway tracks
  • tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • upper yukon river — Lewes River.
  • verkhoyansk range — a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, in E Siberia, Russia. About 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • walk a chalk line — to behave with strict propriety or obedience
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • water on the knee — an accumulation of fluid in the knee cavity caused by inflammation and trauma to the cartilages or membranes of the knee joint.
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