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20-letter words containing h, o, k

  • make head or tail of — to attempt to understand (a problem, etc)
  • make short shrift of — to dispose of quickly and unsympathetically
  • make the most of sth — take advantage
  • methyl propyl ketone — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 5 H 1 0 O, used chiefly as a solvent, especially in lacquers.
  • methyl styryl ketone — benzylidene acetone.
  • mobile phone chicken — a highly dangerous game in which a person is challenged to perform a hazardous stunt which he or she films with a camera phone
  • no lack of something — If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.
  • off the beaten track — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
  • punch a (time) clock — to insert a timecard into a time clock when coming to or going from work
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • quick on the trigger — quick to fire a gun
  • redheaded woodpecker — a North American woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), with a bright-red head and neck, black back, and white underparts
  • ride on shank's mare — to walk
  • ringing off the hook — If your phone is ringing off the hook, so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly.
  • rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
  • season ticket holder — a person who has a season ticket
  • second-hand bookshop — a shop selling second-hand books
  • shake in one's shoes — to tremble with fear or apprehension
  • 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.
  • shank of the evening — the latter part of the afternoon
  • 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.
  • skating championship — a competition for ice-skating
  • 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 into one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • take to the cleaners — a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
  • that makes two of us — the same applies to me
  • the like(s) of which — If you refer to something the like of which or the likes of which has never been seen before, you are emphasizing how important, great, or noticeable the thing is.
  • the luck of the draw — If you say that something is the luck of the draw, you mean that it is the result of chance and you cannot do anything about it.
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • the-lady-of-the-lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
  • 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 keep your hand in — If you do something to keep your hand in, you practise a skill or hobby occasionally in order to remain fairly good at it.
  • to look high and low — If you say that you looked high and low for something, you are emphasizing that you looked for it in every place that you could think of.
  • to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • to shake like a leaf — If you say that someone is shaking like a leaf, you mean that their body is shaking a lot, for instance because they are very cold or frightened.
  • to stick in the craw — to be unacceptable or displeasing to someone
  • to use shock tactics — to attempt to influence people by shocking them
  • to work your way swh — If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
  • tom, dick, and harry — the ordinary person; people generally; everyone: They invited every Tom, Dick, and Harry to the party.
  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
  • turn the other cheek — not retaliate
  • watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
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