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17-letter words containing f, e, r, o, k

  • april fool's joke — (humour, event)   (AFJ) Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet and Internet; see kremvax for an example. In fact, April Fool's Day is the *only* seasonal holiday marked by customary observances on the hacker networks.
  • ask for the check — If you ask for the check, you ask the waitperson in a restaurant to bring you a piece of paper on which the price of your meal is written.
  • black forest cake — a torte consisting typically of thin layers of chocolate cake spread with alternating layers of chocolate, cherry, and whipped-cream filling and covered with whipped cream
  • blue sky software — eHelp Corporation
  • break the back of — to complete the greatest or hardest part of (a task)
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • floppy disk drive — disk drive
  • for heaven's sake — expressing frustration
  • 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.
  • frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
  • frederick pollockSir Frederick, 1845–1937, English legal scholar and author.
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • greater forkbeard — a fish of the Phycidae family
  • heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
  • in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
  • leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
  • little fork river — a river in N Minnesota, flowing N to the Rainy River on the Canadian border. 132 miles (212 km) long.
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • microsoft network — The Microsoft Network
  • money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
  • niger-kordofanian — a language family comprising Niger-Congo and Kordofanian.
  • northern kingfish — a croaker, Menticirrhus saxatilis, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
  • one for the books — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • 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.
  • retention of risk — Retention of risk is the net amount of any risk which an insurance company does not reinsure but keeps for its own account.
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • skin of our teeth — a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder.
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • soft-rock geology — geology dealing with sedimentary rocks.
  • stock certificate — a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.
  • take to the floor — If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco.
  • take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • work-life balance — a situation in which one divides or balances one's time between work and activities outside of work: It's hard to achieve a reasonable work-life balance when you run your own business.

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