16-letter words containing k, o, n
- keep one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
- keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
- kick one's heels — If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.
- kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- king of the hill — a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- know one's stuff — If you say that someone knows their stuff, you mean that they are good at doing something because they know a lot about it.
- know what's what — to know how one thing or things in general work
- knowledge worker — a person employed to produce or analyse ideas and information
- knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- kolyma mountains — a mountain range in NE Siberia, Russia, near the Sea of Okhotsk, rising to over 6000 feet (1830 meters).
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- kunlun mountains — mountain system in W China, between Tibet & Xinjiang: highest peak, c. 25,300 ft (7,711 m)
- labtech notebook — (tool, product) Commercial data aquisition software.
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- lick one's chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- lincoln reckoner — An interactive mathematics program including matrix operations, written about 1965. It ran on the TX-2.
- linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
- long-nosed skate — a fish; Raja oxyrinchus
- look up and down — to search everywhere
- lookout mountain — a mountain ridge in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama: a battle of the Civil War fought here, near Chattanooga, Tenn. 1863; highest point, 2126 feet (648 meters).
- make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
- make an issue of — If you make an issue of something, you try to make other people think about it or discuss it, because you are concerned or annoyed about it.
- man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
- man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
- meet one's maker — to die
- milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
- monkey's wedding — a combination of sunshine and light rain
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
- morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
- mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
- mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
- muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- nagorno-karabakh — a region in SW Azerbaijan: residents mostly Armenian. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).