16-letter words containing k, o, n

brick-and-mortar — pertaining to conventional stores, businesses, etc., having physical buildings and facilities, as opposed to Internet or remote services.
bring sb to book — If you bring someone to book, you punish them for an offence or make them explain their behaviour officially.
buckthorn family — the plant family Rhamnaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having alternate, simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a drupe or capsule, and including the buckthorn, cascara, and New Jersey tea.
bush honeysuckle — any of several shrubs of the genus Diervilla, of eastern North America, having clusters of yellowish flowers.
button snakeroot — blazing star (sense 1)
cache on a stick — (architecture) (COAST) Intel Corporation attempt to's standardise the modular L2 cache subsystem in Pentium-based computers. A COAST module should be about 4.35" wide by 1.14" high. According to earlier specifications from Motorola, a module between 4.33" and 4.36" wide, and between 1.12" and 1.16" high is within the COAST standard. Some module vendors, including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification. Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock tree to each synchronous chip be balanced, i.e. equal length from edge of the connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise. For a 256 kilobyte cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock driver and hence increase the clock speed. However, this creates unbalanced loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system.
canadian hemlock — eastern hemlock.
cantankerousness — disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish: a cantankerous, argumentative man.
capacity booking — a time when someone has booked the whole of a venue or the maximum amount of something available
carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
carrot and stick — If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
check-in counter — The check-in counter at an airport or hotel is the counter or desk where you check in.
checking account — A checking account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
checkout counter — a checkout
chernobyl packet — (networking) /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
chiang ching-kuo — 1910–88, Chinese statesman; the son of Chiang Kai-shek. He was prime minister of Taiwan (1971–78); president (1978–88)
chicken mushroom — an edible yellow-to-orange bracket fungus, Laetiporus sulphureus, common on tree trunks, in which it causes wood decay.
class background — a person's background with reference to social class
cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
cocktail cabinet — a cupboard in which glasses and bottles are kept
combination lock — A combination lock is a lock which can only be opened by turning a dial or a number of dials according to a particular series of letters or numbers.
combination skin — facial skin that is dry in some areas and greasy in others
common knowledge — something widely or generally known
commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
computer network — network
concatenated key — compound key
confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
dakin's solution — a dilute solution containing sodium hypochlorite and boric acid, used as an antiseptic in the treatment of wounds
dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
do like a dinner — to do for, overpower, or outdo

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