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22-letter words containing i, n, t, e, r, k

  • shaken but not stirred — If you say that someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed or emotionally affected by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking.
  • short end of the stick — a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
  • sir william blackstoneSir William, 1723–80, English jurist and writer on law.
  • slender-tailed meerkat — the animal Suricata suricata
  • social networking site — a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
  • speckle interferometry — a photographic technique for clarifying the telescopic images of a star by taking short exposures of the electronic images of the star's speckle pattern and extrapolating properties of the starlight to create a more accurate composite image.
  • take in (one's) stride — to cope with easily and without undue effort or hesitation
  • take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
  • threespine stickleback — a widely distributed stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, occurring in marine, brackish, or fresh waters throughout the northern hemisphere.
  • to be taken for a ride — If you say that someone has been taken for a ride, you mean that they have been deceived or cheated.
  • to stick your neck out — If you stick your neck out, you bravely say or do something that might be criticized or might turn out to be wrong.
  • user network interface — (communications, networking)   (UNI) An interface point between ATM end users and a private ATM switch, or between a private ATM switch and the public carrier ATM network. The physical and protocol specifications for UNIs are defined by the ATM Forum's UNI documents, which allow for various types of physical interfaces. See also: NNI
  • valencia simple tasker — (operating system)   (VSTa) A small microkernel based Unix-like operating system, taking ideas from QNX and Plan 9, available under GPL.
  • workmen's compensation — compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • xerox network services — (networking)   (XNS)
  • yosemite national park — a national park in E California. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
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