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22-letter words containing k, o, b

  • a monkey on one's back — addiction to a drug
  • backward combatability — (humour)   /bak'w*d k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ (Play on "backward compatibility") A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc. are irrevocably discarded in favour of "new and improved" protocols, formats and layouts, leaving the previous ones not merely deprecated but actively defeated. (Too often, the old and new versions cannot definitively be distinguished, such that lingering instances of the previous ones yield crashes or other infelicitous effects, as opposed to a simple "version mismatch" message.) A backward compatible change, on the other hand, allows old versions to coexist without crashes or error messages, but too many major changes incorporating elaborate backward compatibility processing can lead to extreme software bloat. See also flag day.
  • backward compatibility — (jargon)   Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. Sometimes backward compatibility is limited to being able to read old data but does not extend to being able to write data in a format that can be read by old versions. For example, WordPerfect 6.0 can read WordPerfect 5.1 files, so it is backward compatible. It can be said that Perl is backward compatible with awk, because Perl was (among other things) intended to replace awk, and can, with a converter, run awk programs. See also: backward combatability. Compare: forward compatible.
  • backwards and forwards — If someone or something moves backwards and forwards, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • badlands national park — a national park in SW South Dakota: rock formations and animal fossils. 380 sq. mi. (985 sq. km).
  • bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  • bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
  • bark up the wrong tree — to misdirect one's attention, efforts, etc; be mistaken
  • bell, book, and candle — instruments used formerly in excommunications and other ecclesiastical acts
  • big bend national park — a national park in W Texas, on the Rio Grande. 1080 sq. mi. (2800 sq. km).
  • black hole of calcutta — a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived
  • black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
  • block diagram compiler — (simulation, language)   (BDL) A block diagram simulation tool, with associated language.
  • block redundancy check — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
  • blue-winged kookaburra — a related smaller bird D. Leachii, of tropical Australia and New Guinea
  • book of original entry — a book in which transactions are recorded before being transferred into a ledger.
  • born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
  • break (or keep) faith — to be disloyal (or loyal) to one's beliefs, principles, etc.
  • chip off the old block — a person who resembles one of his or her parents in behaviour
  • convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
  • dog's dinner/breakfast — You describe something as a dog's breakfast or dog's dinner in order to express your disapproval of it, for example because it is very untidy, badly organized, or badly done.
  • double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
  • end transmission block — (character)   (ETB) The mnemonic for ASCII character 23.
  • first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
  • get off someone's back — to stop criticizing or pestering someone
  • i don't know about you — You can say 'I don't know about you' to indicate that you are going to give your own opinion about something and you want to find out if someone else feels the same.
  • in one's own back yard — close at hand
  • in someone's bad books — regarded by someone with disfavour
  • it's london to a brick — it is certain
  • justification by works — the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.
  • keesler air force base — a U.S. Air Force installation in S Mississippi, near Biloxi.
  • klebs-loffler bacillus — a bacterium, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.
  • knowledge-based system — (artificial intelligence)   (KBS) A program for extending and/or querying a knowledge base. The related term expert system is normally used to refer to a highly domain-specific type of KBS used for a specialised purpose such as medical diagnosis. The Cyc project is an example of a large KBS.
  • lesser cornstalk borer — the larva of a widely distributed pyralid moth, Elasmopalpus lignosellus, that damages corn and some other crops by boring into the part of the stalk close to the soil.
  • like a bat out of hell — very fast
  • like nobody's business — extremely well or fast
  • make a beeline for sth — If you make a beeline for a place, you go to it as quickly and directly as possible.
  • make a big deal out of — to attach extreme importance to; make a big fuss about
  • make a clean breast of — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
  • make allowances for sb — If you make allowances for someone, you accept behaviour which you would not normally accept or deal with them less severely than you would normally, because of a problem that they have.
  • make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
  • make one's marble good — to succeed or do the right thing
  • make out like a bandit — a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
  • mecklenburg-vorpommern — German name of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania.
  • methyl isobutyl ketone — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 6 H 1 2 O, having a pleasant odor: used as a solvent for nitrocellulose, gums, resins, fats, waxes, and oils.
  • nassella tussock board — one of many local statutory organizations set up in different regions of New Zealand to eradicate the invasive nassella tussock weed
  • neighborhood bike code — (humour, programming)   A piece of code that every programmer at the company has touched.
  • non-maskable interrupt — (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680x0 or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a priority interrupt (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
  • rocky mountain bighorn — bighorn.
  • rose-breasted grosbeak — an American grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus, the male of which, in nuptial plumage, has a rose-pink triangular breast patch.

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