22-letter words containing k, e, c, s
- (dead) in one's tracks — abruptly, as from being stunned or otherwise rendered unable to proceed
- a monkey on one's back — addiction to a drug
- african horse sickness — a fatal infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, which is transmitted by insect vectors. It is caused by an arbovirus and is characterized by pulmonary or cardiac signs
- anankastic personality — a personality syndrome characterized by obsessional or compulsive traits.
- andrew jackson downing — Andrew Jackson, 1815–52, U.S. landscape architect.
- approved social worker — (in England) a qualified social worker specially trained in mental-health work, who is approved by his employing local authority to apply for a mentally disordered person to be admitted to hospital and detained there, or to apply for the person to be received into the guardianship of the local authority
- bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- bankrupt's certificate — a document given to a bankrupt with the consent of their creditors, stating that the bankrupt has disclosed and surrendered all his property
- bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
- black mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- checkout test language — (language) (CTL)
- cockles of one's heart — one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)
- common situs picketing — the picketing of an entire construction project by a union having a dispute with only one subcontractor working at the site.
- common-situs picketing — the picketing of an entire construction site by a union striking against a particular contractor or subcontractor working on only one section
- communications network — a network that provides information
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- crankshaft end bearing — The crankshaft end bearing is the bearing between the connecting rod and the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine.
- cut someone some slack — to be less demanding of someone; ease up on someone
- decompression sickness — a disorder characterized by severe pain in muscles and joints, cramp, and difficulty in breathing, caused by a sudden and sustained decrease in air pressure, resulting in the deposition of nitrogen bubbles in the tissues
- end transmission block — (character) (ETB) The mnemonic for ASCII character 23.
- english cocker spaniel — any of a breed of small spaniel, similar to and the progenitor of the cocker spaniel
- first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
- frequency shift keying — (communications) (FSK) The use of frequency modulation to transmit digital data, i.e. two different carrier frequencies are used to represent zero and one. FSK was originally used to transmit teleprinter messages by radio (RTTY) but can be used for most other types of radio and land-line digital telegraphy. More than two frequencies can be used to increase transmission rates.
- galvanic skin response — a change in the electrical conductivity of the skin caused by an emotional reaction to a stimulus.
- garmisch-partenkirchen — a city in S Germany, in the Bavarian Alps.
- get off someone's back — to stop criticizing or pestering someone
- give someone the flick — to dismiss someone from consideration
- in one's own back yard — close at hand
- in one's stocking feet — wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
- in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
- jack and the beanstalk — an English fairy tale about a boy who angers his mother by selling their last cow, not for money, but for magic beans. His mother throws the beans away, but the next day Jack discovers that they have sprouted into a giant beanstalk. He climbs the beanstalk three times, each time stealing some treasure from the giant who lives in a land in the clouds at the top. Jack ultimately kills the giant by chopping down the beanstalk while the giant is climbing down it
- keep one's own counsel — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- keesler air force base — a U.S. Air Force installation in S Mississippi, near Biloxi.
- kensington and chelsea — a borough of Greater London, England.
- klebs-loffler bacillus — a bacterium, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.
- leather-stocking tales — a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.
- lesser cornstalk borer — the larva of a widely distributed pyralid moth, Elasmopalpus lignosellus, that damages corn and some other crops by boring into the part of the stalk close to the soil.
- lesser prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- make a clean breast of — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- make a federal case of — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
- make allowances for sb — If you make allowances for someone, you accept behaviour which you would not normally accept or deal with them less severely than you would normally, because of a problem that they have.
- 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 flesh creep — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
- 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
- nicky nicky nine doors — the practice of knocking on a door or ringing a doorbell and running away before it is answered
- nkosi sikelel' iafrica — the unofficial anthem of the Black people of South Africa, officially recognized as a national anthem (along with parts of 'Die Stem' and an English verse) in 1991
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