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16-letter words containing k, i, d, n, a

  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
  • lakeland terrier — one of a breed of small, slender terriers, raised originally in northwestern England for hunting foxes.
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
  • market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • roskind grammars — (tool)   Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
  • seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
  • thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
  • tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • walking delegate — (formerly) an official appointed by a trade union to go from place to place to investigate working conditions, to ascertain whether union contracts were being fulfilled, and, sometimes, to negotiate contracts between employers and the union.
  • walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
  • walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
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