15-letter words containing k, n, o, t, h
- pink-shirt book — (publication) "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- stocking stitch — stockinette (def 2).
- take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
- to tie the knot — If you say that two people tie the knot, you mean that they get married.
- tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- what's cooking? — what's happening?
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite