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19-letter words containing k, n, i, g

  • postage and packing — the cost of packing and mailing an item bought by post
  • postal savings bank — any of the savings banks formerly operated by local post offices and limited to small accounts.
  • quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • rocky mountain goat — a long-haired, white, antelopelike wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of mountainous regions of western North America, having short, black horns.
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • shucking and jiving — misleading or deceptive talk or behavior, as to give a false impression.
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
  • speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
  • stick to one's guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
  • take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • the great awakening — a movement of religious revival in the American Colonies from c. 1720 to the time of the Revolution
  • there is no knowing — one cannot tell
  • think nothing of it — If something happens and you think nothing of it, you do not pay much attention to it or think of it as strange or important, although later you realize that it is.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to think nothing of — If you think nothing of doing something that other people might consider difficult, strange, or wrong, you consider it to be easy or normal, and you do it often or would be quite willing to do it.
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
  • yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters
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