22-letter words containing k, a, n, t
- make a nonsense of sth — To make a nonsense of something or to make nonsense of it means to make it seem ridiculous or pointless.
- make common cause with — join forces
- make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
- make one's mouth water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- make out like a bandit — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
- make/prove one's point — If you make your point or prove your point, you prove that something is true, either by arguing about it or by your actions or behaviour.
- marketing intelligence — information about markets that can be used in marketing
- martin luther king day — the third Monday in January, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., commemorating the birthday (Jan. 15) of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- mother carey's chicken — any of various small petrels, especially the stormy petrel, Oceanites oceanicus.
- nassella tussock board — one of many local statutory organizations set up in different regions of New Zealand to eradicate the invasive nassella tussock weed
- native elm bark beetle — elm bark beetle (def 2).
- network interface card — network interface controller
- network node interface — (networking) (NNI) The ATM Forum's specification for connections between network nodes. NNI makes network routing possible. It typically refers to backbone trunk connections between ATM switching equipment. See also: UNI.
- nickel-cadmium battery — a storage battery, with an alkaline electrolyte, having nickel oxide as the positive element and cadmium as the negative.
- non-maskable interrupt — (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680x0 or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a priority interrupt (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
- oak processionary moth — a moth, (Thaumetopoea processionea), of the family Thaumetopoeidae, the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
- oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
- on (or off) the track — keeping to (or straying from) the subject, objective, or goal
- one-eyed trouser snake — a vulgar term for the male member; penis
- open-market operations — the purchase and sale on the open market of government securities by the Bank of England for the purpose of regulating the supply of money and credit to the economy
- packet internet groper — ping
- parker morris standard — (in Britain) a set of minimum criteria for good housing construction, design, and facilities, recommended by the 1961 report of the Central Housing Advisory Committee chaired by Sir Parker Morris. Subsequent governments have urged private and local authority house-builders to achieve these standards
- planck's radiation law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- relationship marketing — a marketing strategy in which a company seeks to build long-term relationships with its customers by providing consistent satisfaction
- rocky mountain bighorn — bighorn.
- rocky mountain juniper — a juniper, Juniperus scopulorum, of western North America, that yields a soft, reddish wood used for making fences, pencils, etc., and that is also grown as an ornamental.
- rocky mountain oysters — mountain oyster.
- search the fucking web — (web, jargon) (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
- 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.
- sir william blackstone — Sir 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
- take a fancy to sb/sth — If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
- take cognizance of sth — If you take cognizance of something, you take notice of it or acknowledge it.
- take in (one's) stride — to cope with easily and without undue effort or hesitation
- take one's breath away — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- take someone's measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- take/tickle sb's fancy — If something takes your fancy or tickles your fancy, you like it a lot when you see it or think of it.
- talk someone's arm off — to talk to someone at great length or without pause
- talk through one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- ten-spined stickleback — a small teleost fish, Gasterosteus pungitius, of the family Gasterosteidae, of rivers and coastal regions, having ten spines along the back and occurring in cold and temperate northern regions
- threespine stickleback — a widely distributed stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, occurring in marine, brackish, or fresh waters throughout the northern hemisphere.
- through thick and thin — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- to awaken to something — to become aware of something
- to be knocked sideways — If you are knocked sideways by something, it makes you feel very surprised, confused, or upset.
- 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 bend over backwards — If you say that someone is bending over backwards to be helpful or kind, you are emphasizing that they are trying very hard to be helpful or kind.
- to cast your mind back — If you cast your mind back to a time in the past, you think about what happened then.
- to make the front page — if something 'makes the front page' it is printed on the first page of a newspaper