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

  • ringing off the hook — If your phone is ringing off the hook, so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly.
  • ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
  • send someone packing — to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
  • shank of the evening — the latter part of the afternoon
  • skating championship — a competition for ice-skating
  • snowflake generation — the generation of people who became adults in the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations
  • spike someone'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.
  • synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
  • there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
  • to be walking on air — If you say that you are walking on air or floating on air, you mean that you feel extremely happy about something.
  • to look high and low — If you say that you looked high and low for something, you are emphasizing that you looked for it in every place that you could think of.
  • track-laying vehicle — A track-laying vehicle is a vehicle whose wheels run inside a continuous chain or track.
  • trustee savings bank — a British financial institution which offered savings facilities for small investors and was managed by unpaid trustees. Depositors had no voting rights and no say in financial or managerial matters. The bank is now a public limited company with the same rights and services as other banks and only retains the title in the abbreviated form TSB.
  • walk-in refrigerator — a refrigerated storage room, as at a butcher shop.
  • walking-around money — money that is carried on the person for routine expenses and minor emergencies; pocket money.
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • working-capital fund — a fund established to finance operating activities in an industrial enterprise.
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