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18-letter words containing k, a

  • sickle-cell anemia — Sickle-cell anemia is an inherited illness in which the red blood cells become curved, causing a number of health problems.
  • sickness insurance — a type of insurance which pays out if you become ill
  • sierra blanca peak — a mountain in S New Mexico: highest peak in the Sacramento Mountains. 11,997 feet (3651 meters).
  • sit up like jackie — to sit bolt upright, esp cheekily
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • skinny-rib sweater — a tight-fitting ribbed woollen jumper or pullover
  • slow on the uptake — slow to understand or learn
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • snakes and ladders — Snakes and ladders is a British children's game played with a board and dice. When you go up a ladder, you progress quickly. When you go down a snake, you go backwards.
  • social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • south saskatchewan — a river in W Canada, flowing E from S Alberta and joining the North Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 865 miles (1392 km) long.
  • spackling compound — spackle
  • speak for yourself — If you say 'Speak for yourself' when someone has said something, you mean that what they have said is only their opinion or applies only to them.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • statutory sick pay — the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • swartkrans ape-man — the fossil remains of the extinct hominid Australopithecus robustus, found at Swartkrans, Republic of South Africa: formerly classified in the genus Paranthropus.
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • take a bite out of — If something takes a bite out of a sum of money, part of the money is spent or taken away in order to pay for it.
  • take a deep breath — If you say that you took a deep breath before doing something dangerous or frightening, you mean that you tried to make yourself feel strong and confident.
  • take a dim view of — not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room; a dim flashlight.
  • 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 heed/pay heed — If you take heed of what someone says or if you pay heed to them, you pay attention to them and consider carefully what they say.
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
  • 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.
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • take to one's legs — to run away
  • talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • talk of the devil! — used when an absent person who has been the subject of conversation appears
  • 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.
  • task control block — (architecture)   An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
  • 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)
  • that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • 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
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