20-letter words containing h, e, k, s, r
- (god) save the mark! — an exclamation of humorous astonishment, irony, contempt, etc.
- after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
- arches national park — a national park in E Utah: natural arch formations. 114 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).
- back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
- bismarck archipelago — a group of over 200 islands in the SW Pacific, northeast of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Main islands: New Britain, New Ireland, Lavongai, and the Admiralty Islands. Chief town: Rabaul, on New Britain. Pop: 566 610 (2000). Area: 49 658 sq km (19 173 sq miles)
- break the glass plan — a plan that is put into operation in an emergency when all other options have been exhausted
- checkbook journalism — the practice of paying for a news story or an interview, or for exclusive broadcasting or publishing rights.
- cocktail shaker sort — (algorithm) A bi-directional bubble sort. Passes alternate between ascending through array indexes, pushing the largest item to the bottom; and descending through array indexes, pushing the smallest item to the top.
- cylinder head gasket — (in an automobile engine) a gasket placed between the cylinder and the cylinder heads to avoid leaks of coolant and compression
- drink with the flies — to drink alone
- electroshock therapy — a form of shock therapy in which electric current is applied to the brain
- for the sake of sthg — If you do something for the sake of something, you do it for that purpose or in order to achieve that result. You can also say that you do it for something's sake.
- frame check sequence — (communications) (FCS) The extra characters added to a frame for error detection and correction(?). FCS is used in X.25, HDLC, Frame Relay, and other data link layer protocols.
- frosting on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- go like the clappers — to move extremely fast
- hardware handshaking — (communications) A technique for regulating the flow of data across an interface by means of signals carried on separate wires. A common example is the RTS (Request to Send) and CTS (Clear to Send) signals on an EIA-232 serial line. The alternative, software handshaking, uses two special characters inserted into the data stream to carry the same information.
- highbush huckleberry — black huckleberry.
- holy water sprinkler — morning star (def 2).
- honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
- jerk someone's chain — to tease, mislead, or harass someone
- keep a straight face — look serious, avoid smiling
- keep your mouth shut — If you keep your mouth shut about something, you do not talk about it, especially because it is a secret.
- kick over the traces — either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
- king charles spaniel — a variety of the English toy spaniel having a black-and-tan coat.
- knights hospitallers — a military religious order founded about the time of the first crusade (1096–99) among European crusaders. It took its name from a hospital and hostel in Jerusalem
- know all the answers — be opinionated
- like a house on fire — If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common.
- make short shrift of — to dispose of quickly and unsympathetically
- mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- methyl styryl ketone — benzylidene acetone.
- near-market research — scientific research that, while not linked to the development of a specific product, is likely to be commercially exploitable
- quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
- ride on shank's mare — to walk
- ring-necked pheasant — a gallinaceous Asian bird, Phasianus colchicus, having a white band around its neck, introduced into Great Britain, North America, and the Hawaiian Islands.
- rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
- season ticket holder — a person who has a season ticket
- shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
- shakespearean sonnet — a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
- short back and sides — If a man has a short back and sides, his hair is cut very short at the back and sides with slightly thicker, longer hair on the top of the head.
- soke of peterborough — a former administrative unit of E central England, generally considered part of Northamptonshire or Huntingdonshire: absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974
- south orkney islands — an uninhabited group of islands in the S Atlantic, southeast of Cape Horn: formerly a dependency of the Falkland Islands; part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962 (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty). Area: 621 sq km (240 sq miles)
- stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
- strike off the rolls — to expel from membership
- synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
- take to the cleaners — a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
- the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
- the three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
- there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
- to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
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