19-letter words containing k, o, g
- like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
- long-and-short work — an arrangement of rectangular quoins or jambstones set alternately vertically and horizontally.
- lumholtz's kangaroo — boongary.
- make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
- market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
- micromesh stockings — stockings made from a material consisting of a fine mesh
- niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
- night-scented stock — a plant, Matthiola bicornis, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
- northern hog sucker — black sucker.
- not by a long chalk — by no means; not possibly
- nothing of the kind — not that
- oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
- portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
- 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.
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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 break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
- to fit like a glove — If you say that something fits like a glove, you are emphasizing that it fits exactly.
- 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
- yellow book, jargon — (publication) The print version of the Jargon File, titled "The New Hacker's Dictionary". It includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry. The first, second, and third editions correspond to versions 2.9.6, 3.0.0, and 4.0.0 of the File, respectively.
- yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters