21-letter words containing h, o, k, e, s
- a fine kettle of fish — an awkward situation; mess
- a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
- aleksandr-nikolaevich — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
- all hell breaks loose — If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts.
- anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
- as luck would have it — fortunately
- behind someone's back — without someone's knowledge or consent
- break someone's heart — an act or instance of breaking; disruption or separation of parts; fracture; rupture: There was a break in the window.
- chequebook journalism — Chequebook journalism is the practice of paying people large sums of money for information about crimes or famous people in order to get material for newspaper articles.
- chink in one's armour — a small but fatal weakness
- clerk to the justices — (in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law
- distinguished-looking — having a dignified and attractive appearance
- divine right of kings — the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
- eiffel source checker — A compiler front-end for Eiffel 3 by Olaf Langmack <[email protected]> and Burghardt Groeber. It was generated automatically with the Karlsruhe toolbox for compiler construction according to the most recent public language definition. The parser derives an easy-to-use abstract syntax tree, supports elementary error recovery and provides a precise source code indication of errors. It performs a strict syntax check and analyses 4000 lines of source code per second on a Sun SPARC workstation.
- get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
- heterogeneous network — (networking) A network running multiple network layer protocols such as DECnet, IP, IPX, XNS.
- hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- keep one's mouth shut — to keep a secret
- know someone by sight — If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
- like a shag on a rock — abandoned and alone
- make (both) ends meet — to manage to keep one's expenses within one's income
- make one's peace with — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- make yourself at home — settle in
- no smoke without fire — the evidence strongly suggests something has indeed happened
- paper over the cracks — conceal flaws or problems
- ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- protestant work ethic — work ethic.
- rap over the knuckles — to reprimand
- s-k reduction machine — An abstract machine defined by Professor David Turner to evaluate combinator expressions represented as binary graphs. Named after the two basic combinators, S and K.
- safe in the knowledge — If you do something safe in the knowledge that something else is the case, you do the first thing confidently because you are sure of the second thing.
- sick to one's stomach — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sink one's teeth into — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- skeleton at the feast — a person or event that brings gloom or sadness to an occasion of joy or celebration
- stick in one's throat — to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe
- stockholder of record — a stockholder or his or her agent whose name is registered on the books of the issuing corporation at the close of a business day set for determining that stockholders shall receive dividends or vote on an issue.
- strike the right note — to behave appropriately
- take off one's hat to — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- take one's hat off to — to salute or congratulate
- take sb at their word — If you take someone at their word, you believe what they say, when they did not really mean it or when they meant something slightly different.
- take sb/sth seriously — If you take someone or something seriously, you believe that they are important and deserve attention.
- take the consequences — to accept the results of one's actions
- tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
- the corncracker state — a nickname for the state of Kentucky
- the fast track to sth — the quickest or most direct route or system
- the microsoft network — (networking) (MSN) Microsoft's ISP and online content service, launched in October 1996. Not to be confused with Microsoft Networking. MSN was originally based on custom software and protocols, however Microsoft saw the error of their ways and adopted Internet standards. MSN now provides standard WWW and email facilities, albeit with Microsoft's Internet Explorer web-browser and the Outlook Express email software. The service also provides "Community Services" including newsgroups, forums, and chat.
- think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
- to be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
- to hit the bookstands — (of a book) to be published
- to sink without trace — If you say that someone or something sinks without trace or sinks without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
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