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18-letter words containing i, n, t, a, k, e

  • knight of the road — a tramp
  • knotted cranesbill — a British wildflower, Geranium nodosum, an meadow geranium with bright pink or purple flowers
  • labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
  • lake pontchartrain — a shallow lagoon in SE Louisiana, linked with the Gulf of Mexico by a narrow channel, the Rigolets: resort and fishing centre. Area: 1620 sq km (625 sq miles)
  • make a night of it — to cause an activity to last a night
  • make someone tired — to annoy or vex someone
  • market opportunity — a situation in which a company can meet an unsatisfied customer need before its competitors
  • marketing campaign — a series of coordinated activities designed to help market a product
  • marketing research — the study of influences upon customer and consumer behaviour and the analysis of market characteristics and trends
  • marketing strategy — a general plan or set of plans dealing with marketing, especially over a long period
  • multicast backbone — (MBONE) A virtual network on top of the Internet which supports routing of IP multicast packets, intended for multimedia transmission. MBONE gives public access desktop video communications. The quality is poor with only 3-5 frames per second instead of the 30 frames per second of commercial television. Its advantage is that it avoids all telecommunications costs normally associated with teleconferencing. An interesting innovation is the use of MBONE for audio communications and an electronic "whiteboard" where the computer screen becomes a shared workspace where two physically remote parties can draw on and edit shared documents in real-time.
  • nickel-and-dime it — to succeed or obtain something gradually by the repeated expenditure of small sums or the slow gathering of votes, power, money, etc. in small increments
  • nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • not take kindly to — not welcome
  • now you're talking — at last you're saying something agreeable
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • on a sticky wicket — in an awkward situation
  • oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • percentile ranking — the percentage of scores that a particular score is greater than
  • phase-shift keying — (communications)   (PSK) A digital modulation scheme that conveys data by changing the phase of a carrier wave. The data can either determine the absolute phase relative to the unmodulated carrier or reference signal ("coherent phase-shift keying", CPSK) or the change in phase ("differential phase-shift keying", DPSK). The number of different phases used determines the amount of data that can be transmitted in each cycle. Each cycle can be considered to constitute one "symbol", e.g. with two possible phases, each cycle carries one bit. The more phases that are used, the less tollerant to noise the transmissions becomes. Alternatives to PSK are amplitude-shift keying (ASK) and frequency-shift keying (FSK).
  • radiation sickness — sickness caused by irradiation with x-rays or other nuclear radiation as a result of therapeutic treatment, accidental exposure, or a nuclear bomb explosion and characterized by nausea, vomiting, headache, cramps, diarrhea, loss of hair and teeth, destruction of white blood cells, and prolonged hemorrhage.
  • relative minor key — a minor key that has the same key signature as a major key, but a different tonic
  • risk based testing — (testing)   Testing based on identification of potential risks (or "candidate risks"), which should be analysed by the project stakeholder or which might appear during the project's development.
  • sedimentation tank — a tank into which sewage is passed to allow suspended solid matter to separate out
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • take cognizance of — note, acknowledge
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
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