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20-letter words containing k, h, u

  • a drop in the bucket — an amount very small in relation to what is needed or desired
  • after-hours drinking — drinking in a pub after its legal closing time
  • armchair quarterback — a person who is not a quarterback (or general, etc.), but offers opinions and criticism on the performance or decisions of those who are
  • buck's horn plantain — a Eurasian plant, Plantago coronopus, having leaves resembling a buck's horn: family Plantaginaceae
  • checkbook journalism — the practice of paying for a news story or an interview, or for exclusive broadcasting or publishing rights.
  • chikamatsu monzaemon — (born Sugimori Nobumori) 1653-1724; Jpn. dramatist: called the Shakespeare of Japan
  • chuck it all (in/up) — If someone chucks it all, they stop doing their job, and usually move somewhere else. In British English you can also say that someone chucks it all up or chucks it all in.
  • count one's chickens — If you say that someone is counting their chickens, you mean that they are assuming that they will be successful or get something, when this is not certain.
  • cut the gordian knot — to find a quick, bold solution for a perplexing problem
  • frame check sequence — (communications)   (FCS) The extra characters added to a frame for error detection and correction(?). FCS is used in X.25, HDLC, Frame Relay, and other data link layer protocols.
  • frankfurt horizontal — Craniometry. the plane established when right and left poria and left orbitale are in the same horizontal plane.
  • fully-fitted kitchen — a kitchen fitted with units and appliances such as an oven, dishwasher, etc
  • get one's hackles up — to become tense with anger; bristle
  • hang up one's spikes — to retire, as from a professional sport
  • highbush huckleberry — black huckleberry.
  • honeysuckle ornament — anthemion.
  • how are you keeping? — how are you?
  • hudson's bay blanket — a woollen blanket with wide stripes
  • japanese honeysuckle — a climbing honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Asia, having fragrant, white flowers that fade to yellow.
  • juno and the paycock — a play (1924) by Sean O'Casey.
  • keep your mouth shut — If you keep your mouth shut about something, you do not talk about it, especially because it is a secret.
  • kingston upon thames — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • knock out of the box — to make so many hits against (an opposing pitcher) as to cause the pitcher's removal
  • knock the tar out of — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • like a house on fire — If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common.
  • like death warmed up — very ill
  • mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
  • punch a (time) clock — to insert a timecard into a time clock when coming to or going from work
  • quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
  • quick on the trigger — quick to fire a gun
  • rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
  • soke of peterborough — a former administrative unit of E central England, generally considered part of Northamptonshire or Huntingdonshire: absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974
  • south orkney islands — an uninhabited group of islands in the S Atlantic, southeast of Cape Horn: formerly a dependency of the Falkland Islands; part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962 (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty). Area: 621 sq km (240 sq miles)
  • stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
  • take up the gauntlet — to accept a challenge
  • that makes two of us — the same applies to me
  • the luck of the draw — If you say that something is the luck of the draw, you mean that it is the result of chance and you cannot do anything about it.
  • the three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
  • to keep your hand in — If you do something to keep your hand in, you practise a skill or hobby occasionally in order to remain fairly good at it.
  • to use shock tactics — to attempt to influence people by shocking them
  • to work your way swh — If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • turn the other cheek — not retaliate
  • you know what i mean — You can use expressions such as you know what I mean and if you know what I mean to suggest that the person listening to you understands what you are trying to say, and so you do not have to explain any more.

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