21-letter words containing k, a, h, n
- 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.
- anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
- anton van leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
- banach-tarski paradox — (mathematics) It is possible to cut a solid ball into finitely many pieces (actually about half a dozen), and then put the pieces together again to get two solid balls, each the same size as the original. This paradox is a consequence of the Axiom of Choice.
- be in black and white — You say that something is in black and white when it has been written or printed, and not just said.
- behind someone's back — without someone's knowledge or consent
- benzalkonium chloride — a white or yellowish-white, water-soluble mixture of ammonium chloride derivatives having the structure C 8 H 10 NRCl, where R is a mixture of radicals ranging from C 8 H 17 – to C 18 H 37 –, that occurs as an amorphous powder or in gelatinous lumps: used chiefly as an antiseptic and a disinfectant.
- blackburn with darwen — a unitary authority in NW England, in Lancashire. Pop: 139 800 (2003 est). Area: 137 sq km (53 sq miles)
- bluethroat pikeblenny — See under pikeblenny.
- break someone's heart — an act or instance of breaking; disruption or separation of parts; fracture; rupture: There was a break in the window.
- breakthrough bleeding — bleeding from the uterus that occurs between menstrual periods
- 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
- clone-and-hack coding — case and paste
- dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
- drop the handkerchief — a children's game in which all the players but one stand in a circle facing inward, while that one player stealthily drops a handkerchief behind a player in the circle who must pursue and attempt to catch the one who dropped the handkerchief before the latter reaches the vacated place.
- frankfort on the main — a city in W central Germany, on the Main River.
- frankfort on the oder — a city in NE Germany, on the Oder River.
- get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
- have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
- hop, skip, and a jump — a short distance: The laundry is just a hop, skip, and a jump away.
- humuhumunukunukuapuaa — either of two triggerfishes, especially Rhinecantus aculeatus, of Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
- i don't know how/what — You use I don't know in expressions which indicate criticism of someone's behaviour. For example, if you say that you do not know how someone can do something, you mean that you cannot understand or accept them doing it.
- ilya ilyich mechnikov — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- just a bunch of disks — (jargon, storage) (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another. For example, Unisys open storage provides JBOD in both SCSI and fibre channel interfaces.
- keep the ball rolling — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- khalid ibn abdul aziz — 1913–82, king and President of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia (1975–82)
- knights of st columba — an international, semi-secret fraternal and charitable order for Catholic laymen, which originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882 (the Knights of Columbus)
- 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.
- 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.
- school of hard knocks — the experience gained from living, especially from disappointment and hard work, regarded as a means of education: The only school he ever attended was the school of hard knocks.
- share and share alike — with each having an equal share
- sick to one's stomach — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- 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
- 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 the consequences — to accept the results of one's actions
- tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
- the break of day/dawn — The break of day or the break of dawn is the time when it begins to grow light after the night.
- the corncracker state — a nickname for the state of Kentucky
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